Wondering.... about Snape & McGonagall

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 116614


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at y...> wrote:
> 
>> Carol adds:
> I think you've hit on the key point here. McGonagall was Severus
> Snape's teacher for seven years as well as the HoH of a rival house.
> And they've been colleagues now for fourteen years. They must know
> each other as well as any two people at Hogwarts. I think that she
> knows and respects Snape's abilities just as he knows and respects 
her
> fairness. Their shared belief in firmness and the importance of 
their
> subjects would give them common ground. 


But that begs a huge question, doesn't it?  Namely, how does 
McGonagall regard Snape's unfairness?  Particularly how does she 
regard his viciousness toward Harry?  Her brief smile in the Career 
Advice session shows that she is aware there is no love lost there.  
And somehow, for all her stern demeanor, I can't believe she simply 
shrugs her shoulders and says "It's for the boy's own good."

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