What if other teachers behaved like Snape?

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 101149

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "darrin_burnett" 
<bard7696 at a...> wrote:
> 
> Funny, I have yet to see Snape save Harry's life, at least on his 
> own. He held off Quirrell's curse for Hermione, but Snape did 
nothing  to save Harry in PoA. Harry was in no danger.<

Scuse me? Hermione stopped Quirrell entirely by accident on 
her way to setting Snape on fire. If she hadn't knocked over 
Quirrell by mistake, she'd have succeeded in getting Harry killed.

And how was Snape supposed to know that Harry was in no 
danger in PoA?   Especially since it wasn't true. There was a 
Death Eater on the loose. Pettigrew did attack Ron and might 
just as easily have attacked Harry. Considering that Ron was still 
out cold an hour after he was attacked, that was no mere 
Stupefy! he got hit with. 

 Of course it's a pity Snape had the wrong idea about who the DE 
was, but it's also a pity that neither Sirius nor Lupin thought to 
bring Snape around so that he could see Pettigrew for himself.  

Pippin