[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape like teacher

[Shaun Hately]

No: HPFGUIDX 103236

On 29 Jun 2004 at 3:39, dumbledore11214 wrote:

> Sorry, not IMO. McGonagall is strict with everybody. Snape is 
> arbitrarily unfair. (really don't want to get into my "he is not only 
> unfair, but abusive" mood right now) 
> 
> Even if you disagree that he is abusive, I really don't see how 
> anybody can question Snape's unfairness.

Well, can you show us where Snape is unfair? How often it actually happens?

I recently went through the books looking at all of Snape's 
interactions with Neville and I found only one (I think - I can't 
check my notes again right now) instance where I think Snape was 
actually unfair to Neville.  I was surprised - reading the books 
through, I always thought Snape *was* unfair to Neville - it's only 
when I looked closely that I changed my mind on that.

So at the moment, I'm not sure whether he's generally unfair or not 
- except with regards to Harry (which is, IMHO, a special case).

I can think of one incident with Hermione when I think he was 
unfair.

But even that only gives me two incidents in five books. And that's 
not enough for me to condemn a teacher.

Maybe if you could say when you think Snape's been unfair - that 
could be interesting.

Because honestly, at the moment, I'm wondering if we've been 
misjudging the guy. I'd like to think that we haven't been - but I 
think we need to look at the specific incidents, and see if they 
can be explained in any other way, or even if they really fit the 
category of 'unfair'.

[Note - 'fair' doesn't necessarily mean 'correct' or 'justified'.]


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