Snape has NO emotion? Was Re: Mistaken identity thread - confusion

[Kewpie]

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Aussie wrote:

> Problem: 
> - Snape showed no emotion when Ginny was taken by the Basalisk


Then how do you interpret the following passage:
CoS US paperback p.295
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"A student has been taken by the monster. Right into the Chamber 
itself." (McGonagall)
Professor Flitwick let out a squeal. Professor Sprout clapped her 
hands over her mouth. Snape gripped the back of a chair very hard and 
said, "How can you be sure?"
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I don't know how anyone could have read the above passage and 
concluded that Snape having absolutely NO emotion of any kind 
regarding Ginny being taken by down to the Chamber. Why on earth 
would JKR bother to put such reactions details of Snape (and have him 
asked a question) followed other teachers's in the same paragraph if 
he was meant to show "no emotion"? It's just a little bit in-denial 
in dismissing something that's written on the page (maybe it's just 
too subtle, I guess readers can interpret anyway they wanted 
according to their like/dislike toward the character).

Well I do not see this this as any prove to the theory where Ginny 
might have been related to Snape, because in my opinion Snape, no 
matter how harsh he was toward the students in his teaching method, 
he does not want any of them dead. I believe he would have react the 
same way if it were any other student, not just Ginny. 

Joan