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

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Eggplant:
> I very much doubt Harry will ever fully recover from the traumatic 
> events in OoP, and he was NOT misbehaving, he was just defending 
> himself. From the book: 
> 
> "Malfoy glanced around -Harry knew he was checking for 
> signs of teachers -then he looked back at Harry and said in a 
> low voice, 'You're dead, Potter.' [
]  'You're going to pay,'
said 
> Malloy in a voice barely louder than a whisper. 'I'm going to make 
> you pay for what you've done to my father
'" 
> 
> Then Harry said Malfoy's father was a scumbag, a perfectly true 
> statement, the man is a scumbag. Back to the book:
> 
> "Malfoy's hand flew towards his wand, but Harry was too quick 
> for him; he had drawn his own wand before Malfoy's fingers had 
even 
> entered the pocket of his robes."
> 
> And that's when Snape showed up, talking to Harry as "coldly as 
> ever" and with "a sneering smile" removed 10 points from 
> Gryffindor.  Snape and Malfoy junior both figured that Harry had 
not 
> suffered enough in the last few days, and that's why there were 2 
> scumbag in the room that day.  
> 


Alla:

Bravo, Eggplant. I completely agree with you that Harry was 
defending himself - I just reread this scene and read it exactly the 
same way.

So, no I don't think that Snape was administering routine discipline 
at all. He was being himself.

The only possible mitigating circumstance which I may see for Snape 
is  that we don't know when exactly he emerged from stairs.

Did he see that Malfoy started the confrontation or not? If he saw 
it, I am adding this event to my "Let's slap Snape" list of moments.