Why has DD never suggested Snape thank Harry? (Was: Why has DD never suggest

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 117354


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "eggplant9998" 
<eggplant9998 at y...> wrote:
> 
> 
> Lupinlore wrote:
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> > Dumbledore has never once suggested
> > to Harry that he should thank Snape 
> > for doing so [saving his life]. 
> 
> I believe this entire thread is misnamed so I changed it. At the 
time in question Harry had just saved the entire Wizarding world  
(including Snape) from a terrible fate; in fact although he had not  
yet reached his 13'Th birthday this was the second time he had 
done  so.<

Eh? First year, Harry and his friends  received the House Cup for 
their services and congratulations, via McGonagall, from Snape. 
Second year they got special awards for services to the school, 
which includes Snape, and fourth year Snape stood and drank in 
honor of Harry, or so we are given to understand.   It was only 
some of those at the Slytherin table who we're told did not.

And then in fifth year McGonagall says, " well, I think Potter and 
his friends ought to have fifty points apiece for alerting the world 
to the return of You-Know-Who! What say you, Professor 
Snape?"

"What?" snapped Snape, though Harry knew he had heard 
perfectly well. "Oh--well--I suppose..."

A shade perfunctory, but it's in there. 

Pippin