[HPforGrownups] Let's hear it for good old Snapey!

[mom31]

No: HPFGUIDX 87904





  Devin asked:
  >defenseless proto-James).  And what short of hate (or at least mild
  >loathing) would prompt a man to embarass an 11-year-old by asking him
  >questions he can't possibly know the answers to in one of his first
  >classes ever?  I'm sorry, I can't possibly ever think of that as the

  Ffred answered:
  Just a minor point, I'm sure, but _Hermione_ knew the answers to the
  questions, because she'd done the reading.

  So there's no absolute reason why Harry couldn't have known them.

  Snape was certainly setting out to be nasty, but also making the point that
  it's not just talent that's important, it's learning too (a good message for
  any novice wizard, in my opinion!)


  Joj adds:
  I think that's reaching a little.  Hermione is not typical, in that way, by any means.  Snape also was not asking basic questions.  They sounded like final exam questions to me.  I don't think he thought for a moment Harry might know the answers.  He just wanted to knock him down a peg, right from the beginning.  To show him who's boss.  To show everyone else, the Famous Harry Potter doesn't walk on water.
  Joj



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