What if other teachers behaved like Snape?

[cubfanbudwoman]

No: HPFGUIDX 101605

SSSusan:
> > I do wonder what would happen if Snape were to have treated 
> > beloved Draco as he had treated Harry, Neville & Hermione.  Would 
> > Draco run to daddy and demand something be done about it?  Would 
> > Lucius be the parent to finally force the issue w/ DD?  At this 
> > point, that's the ONLY scenario I can imagine in which Snape 
> > would be reprimanded for his teaching methods, and, well, I 
> > really CAN'T see it happening.  
> > 
> > (Hmmmm.  Or would Lucius tell Draco to buck up...or just go have 
> > a talk w/ Severus himself?  Interesting to contemplate....)

Mel:
> You don't need to contemplate at all.
> In CoS (Don't have the book so can't give chapter and verse) we 
find 
> out, from Lucius, that Hermione got higher grades than Draco (and 
> everyone else). He takes that at face value and as meaning a 
> muggleborn performed better in class (in which her teacher "hates" 
> her) than his son (in the same class but in this case the 
> teacher "likes" Draco.). Does Lucius blame Snape? Hermione has 
> outscored Draco in EVERY class so Snape's 'like' or 'dislike' is 
> rather a wash in this case.  (Does anyone here think any othe HW 
> teachers are 'favoring' Slytherins? No, I thought not.) You'd think 
> it would be the perfect opportunity for Lucius to start a 
Dumbledore 
> bashing session harping on how he 'encourages mudbloods' by 
> requiring teachers to be 'easy' on them.
> 
> Oh, as far as the claims that Snape *likes* Draco--I have yet to 
see 
> any *real* canon proof of Snape *liking* Draco. I think, for him, 
> Draco is means a to an end, like everything else.
> 
> 
> Mel

SSSusan again:
Ummm...maybe I wasn't especially clear in what I was saying.  My post 
wasn't about Snape or any other teacher favoring the Slyths or liking 
Draco.  (Perhaps I should have left out the sarcastic "beloved" 
before Draco, which was actually *my* descriptor of him, not 
Snape's?)  All I was wondering about was what people thought MIGHT 
happen were Snape ever to treat Draco the way he's treated Harry.  If 
Snape sneered and took points and broke potion vials and all that.  
Would Draco run to daddy and complain?  (The way he complains about 
Hagrid and expects daddy to step in, for instance.)

Hermione is an excellent student.  I believe Snape by & large does 
give her the grades she deserves.  I object to things like his 
nastiness in humiliating her in front of the class and his cruel 
comment about her teeth, but I've never suggested that he doesn't 
give Hermione the grade she deserves.

And none of that was the point of my post.  Per JKR, Snape is a 
sadistic teacher.  Does anybody really think he's not *more* sadistic 
with some students than with others?  Draco may be an outstanding 
student and get the grades he deserves; I've absolutely no reason to 
doubt that he doesn't.  I was just "what iffing"--contemplating the 
highly unlikely situation in which Snape might actually turn on Draco-
-and asking people what they thought Draco would do.

Siriusly Snapey Susan