Who's the bully was Re: Snape's Reaction to Harry assuming that he is a DE spy

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 108680


> Pippin wrote:
> 
> What abusive behavior? Harry is out of bounds after hours and
Snape has every right to discipline him. I think Snape backed 
down because Moody is the one Dumbledore called in specially 
to be responsible for Harry's safety during the tournament, and 
Moody is insisting that Harry's not there. Snape knows perfectly 
well where Harry is--he knows where the trick steps are as well 
as anyone.
> 
> Actually if anybody is being bullied in that scene, it's Snape. Not
> that he doesn't deserve it...
> 
> 
> vmonte responds:
> 
> Yes, Harry was not obeying the rules again, but I think that 
Moody's  comment was more a general observation of how 
Snape seems to be  targeting Harry negatively at school.
> 

Pippin:
Really? I thought it was much more serious than that...I thought 
Moody was threatening to tell Dumbledore that it was Snape who 
had put Harry's name in the goblet--just before the snippet you 
quoted, Moody justifies his search of Snape's office with "auror's 
privilege." I doubt very much if Aurors are called in to deal with 
aggressive sarcastic teachers. Death Eaters that walked free, 
are another matter...It would be interesting to know if fake!Moody 
was aware of Snape's acquittal or not. 


> page 474
> 
> "I merely thought," said Snape, in a voice of forced calm, "that if 
 Potter was wandering around after hours again...it's an 
unfortunate habit of his...he should be stopped. For--for his own 
safety."<
> 
> "Ah, I see," said Moody softly. "Got Potter's best interests at 
> heart, have you?"
> 
> vmonte: 
> 
> See how even the bad guys know that Snape does not have 
Harry's best  interest in mind! <

Pippin:
LOL! They're both playing to their invisible audience: Harry. I 
suspect that Fake!Moody and Snape tried to use legilimency on 
each other and were foiled, but each realized that they had been 
foiled.

 Snape is saying something like "On your own head be it, Potter, 
if you get in trouble wandering around the corridors. There *is* 
someone on campus trying to kill you, but if you'd rather trust 
your miserable neck to Moody than to me, when I happen to have 
saved your worthless life at least once, I can't stop you."

As for Fake!Moody, he  is very anxious to find out what Potter saw 
on the map, and if Harry is sent back to bed or hauled off to 
detention, he won't get a chance to find out.

Pippin