Snape vs. RW (was: Harry) (was: What if other teachers behaved like Snape?)

[potioncat]

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> SSSusan:
> I concur with you about violently disagreeing with a couple of 
> things he's done [dropping Harry's potion vial being one of them; 
> berating & intimidating Neville being another], but as I posted 
> earlier today, I'm *working on* understanding Snape w/in the 
> Hogwarts context.
> 
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Potioncat:
I don't know what DD was thinking.  I know he has two roles: Leader 
of the anti-LV group and Headmaster.  But if you ask me, he confuses 
them.

He took a young man, rumored at 11 to be up to his eyes in dark 
arts, who has the social skills of a rattlesnake, and was/is a 
member of the Death Eaters and gave him a job TEACHING children?  
>From DD's point of view, Snape must be performing beyond his wildest 
dreams!

Potioncat (who read the rattlesnake phrase this week, but doesn't 
remember who wrote it.)