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

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 117685



Magda: 
> The world is not going to be put on hold because someone has lost a
> loved one.  Harry was (to an observor) out of line and not at all
> remorseful about it.  Snape was acting like a strict teacher and an
> anti-Harry teacher in front of the sons of three Death Eaters.  
Being
> compassionate at that moment would have been foolish of Snape.

Potioncat:
We've touched on McGonagall a bit in this thread.  Had she been the 
one to walk in on the scene, and had she been given the same answer 
Snape was, IMHO, Harry would have gotten a tongue lashing as well as 
losing points.