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

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 117451


Pippin:
> 
>> <snip> 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.

Alla:
> 
> If he indeed drank to Harry in GoF, it counts for something, since 
> nobody was coerced to stand up, but again we did not see it

Carol:
We do at least know that Snape was present at that ceremony and that
he stood up for Cedric Diggory:

"Further along the table, sitting next to Professor McGonagall, was
Snape. His eyes lingered on Harry for a moment as Harry looked at him.
His expression was difficult to read" (GoF Am. ed. 720). (Note who
he's sitting next to!)

When Dumbledore tells them to raise their glasses to Cedric Diggory,
the narrator informs us: "They did it, all of them; the benches
scraped as everyone in the hall stood, and raised their goblets, and
echoed, in one loud, low, rumbling voice, 'Cedric Diggory!'" (721).
This passage is the first hopeful sign of unity among all the Hogwarts
staff and students, and the Beauxbatons and Durmstrang students as
well. Karkaroff has fled, but Snape is present, and raises his glass
with the rest.

Whether he does the same with Harry is less clear: "Dumbledore turned
gravely to Harry and raised his goblet once more. Nearly everyone in
the Great Hall followed suit. They murmured his name, as they had
murmured Cedric's and drank to him. But through a gap in the standing
figures, Harry saw that Malfoy, Crabbe, Goyle, and many other of the
Slytherins had remained defiantly in their seats, their goblets
untouched. Dumbledore, who after all, possessed no magical eye, did
not see them" (723).

The implication is that Draco and a few other Slytherin students are
the only ones who do not drink to Harry Harry. Dumbledore can't see
them, but he would almost certainly have seen Snape out of the corner
of his eye had Snape not stood up, and for that reason alone, Ithink
Snape would have done so. Moreover, he was sitting next to McGonagall,
who also would have noticed and would have firmly disapproved. He was
also in full view of all the students. Harry and others would have
noticed so marked a departure from protocol. Ron would certainly have
remarked on it if Harry didn't. But there is no indication whatever
that Snape behaved any differently from McGonagall in this instance.

In the absence of evidence to the contrary, I think we can safely
assume that Snape did indeed stand and drink to Harry.

Carol