Evaluating Snape (was: Re: Lupin's resentment )

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No: HPFGUIDX 94183

Carol:
> In one instance, it's partly Hermione's fault. Harry spills or 
> drops his potion, she has helpfully emptied his cauldron with a 
> vanishing spell, and there's nothing to turn in. So Harry gets a 
> zero for having no potion. There's no other grade to give him. The 
> apparent pleasure in giving Harry a zero may be psychological 
> abuse, though that's stretching it a bit, but the grade isn't 
> grade abuse. 

Susan:
Actually, while I really did feel the need to tone down my first 
argument about "grade abuse", this is the one I **would** stick to 
my guns on and call grade abuse or at least grade unfairness. ;-)   
This was the time **Snape** broke Harry's flask after Harry turned 
it in.  I think it's even possible that Snape saw Hermione cleaning 
up Harry's cauldron and then broke it, knowing Harry couldn't fill 
another flask.  Remember, too, that Snape "survey[ed] him with a 
look of gloating pleasure" [US Scholastic, p. 661] after it 
happened.  It reads *to me* as intentional sabotage.

Siriusly Snapey Susan