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

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 117734


 
>>>> Eggplant:
> > 
> > "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
'" 

Potioncat:
I'm trusting your quotes and not looking for any on my own. To re-
state your entry: Draco checks for teachers. Does not see any.


>>>Eggplant 
> > "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. 


Potioncat:
To requote "he had drawn his own wand before Malfoy's fingers had 
even entered the pocket of his robes."

Snape shows up to see Harry pointing a wand at Draco who does not 
even have his hand in his pocket. (This is vintage TV mystery set 
up, innocent person picks up murder weapon and leans over body just 
as the police come in)


Eggplant:
 >Snape and Malfoy junior both figured that Harry had 
> not suffered enough in the last few days, and that's why there 
>were 2scumbag in the room that day. 

Potioncat:
McGonagall "assumed" that Harry had tricked Draco into wandering 
around the castle at night by telling a wild story about a dragon.

McGonagall jumped all over Harry and the Weasley twin (Fred or 
George) for "attacking" Draco after he really insulted their mothers 
at the Quidditch game.  

Snape isn't the only one who takes Draco's side but no one ever 
complains about Minnie. 


 
>>> 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.

Potioncat:
Let's face it.  Even if Gryffindor had had 10 points by that time, 
taking them was not going to matter.  So what?

So either Snape sees what looks like Harry picking on Malfoy and 
takes points in what would be fair punishment(but meaningless) or he 
saw it was Malfoy's fault and administers unfair (but meaningless) 
punishment.

Oh, Alla, Snape lives to make you happy and you slap him!
Oh, wait, he was a friend of Bella's....I'd better not ask. ;-)