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

[melclaros]

No: HPFGUIDX 94213

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "vmonte" <vmonte at y...> wrote:
> 
> (By the way do you think Snape's treatment of Hermione is 
justified? 
> Would you say that she is ever unprepared for class, doesn't 
listen, 
> is uneducable, etc. Maybe Snape doesn't like her because she is a 
> know-it-all? Or maybe he doesn't like her because she has Muggle 
> parents?! Is being a racist ok?) 



Except for one incident, which has been discussed ad-nauseum here, 
there really is very little to be said at all about 
Snape's "treatment" of Hermione. He doesn't appear to partucularly 
like *any* students and that includes "his slytherins". Hermione is 
a teacher's nightmare. She IS a know it all and a bossy, aggressive 
one. Students like that cow other students who fall into a "oh she's 
going to answer anyway, why bother," line of thinking when her type 
is in the room. There are only so many times a teacher can say "Why 
don't we give someone else a chance," or "I'm sure you've done the 
reading, Miss Granger, shall we let someone else show us that they 
have as well?" before even the sweetest, calmest "Miss Honey" type 
blows a gasket. 
Snape's gaskets are leaking already. 

Most of Snape's comments aren't *to* Hermione, they're to others--
Harry or Neville--or even Lupin. They are belittling to those 
students, saying they need her help to do anything properly. Sure 
it's snide but it's also, in a very Snapish way, saying "I know who 
the brains are here. I know where you'd be if you didn't have her 
doing it all FOR you."
And he's right. 
How many essays has she re-written in the common room?

It's also interesting to note that aside from Dumbledore (and his 
defense is dodgy at best) Hermione is Snape's greatest defender. 
She's not walking around moaning about being treated unfairly. If 
anyone was going to bring up the unfairness of a teacher, it would 
be our Miss Hermione SPEW Granger. As far as we know, she never 
mentioned the unmentionable *cough-teeth-cough* incident either. No 
sign of lasting mental anguish there.
 
It's a given. Snape is NOT a nice person. JKR herself has said he 
abuses his authority. There's plenty to lay on him, why look for 
stuff that's *not* really there to add to it?

Mel