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

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 117713


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at m...> 
wrote:
 
> 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.

Geoff:

Despite the fact that JKR uses the word "fiercely" in describing 
Harry's response, I read him as saying it rather archly to Snape - a 
bit tongue-in-cheek - and I think that McGonagall picked up on that 
in the incident. after all, he had just been threatened by the son of 
a Death Eater.

Geoff
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