Cataloging Snape's Behavior, Pt. II CoS (very long)

[Alex Boyd]

No: HPFGUIDX 115141


Snip of a very thorough catalogue of Snape appearances:


> Ron hopes that Snape is ill, Harry hopes that Snape has left because
> he didn't get the DADA position, and then Ron hopes that
> Snape's been
> sacked.  "I mean, everyone hates him," Ron explains.  Of
> course, Snape
> is standing right behind the two of them.  In a "very cold
> voice"
> Snape demands to know why they didn't arrive on the train. 

I've never noticed this before, but does this snippet remind anyone
else of the scene in SS/PS where Ron remarks that Hermione is "a
nightmare" and "no one can stand her," and is similarly overheard? 
You'd think he'd have learned.  :)

Seriously, though--Snape probably *knows* no one can stand him (like
Hermione, he must've noticed), but hearing it may have some effect on
his rather out-of-proportion behavior in the following scene.  Not
being an 11-year-old girl, he tries to get Ron expelled instead of
sobbing in the bathroom.

Alex