Snape and Harry again. WasRe: Snape in the Shrieking Shack (was re:time-turning)

[pippin_999]

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<willsonkmom at m...> wrote:

> 
> So, why has JKR made this very nasty person someone who is 
important  to DD, protective of Harry, and a teacher? <

Because making him  nice would be totally Mary Sue (the fan 
fiction character who can do no wrong.) 

I have thought of a defense for Snape's "I see no difference" 
remark, by the way. We see in OOP that he has a habit of 
ignoring Slytherin hexes unless they're life-threatening. I think
it's Angelina's eyebrows that are hexed in that book and he 
insists she must have done it herself despite the testimony of 
eyewitnesses. 

All of which is to say that Snape needn't have meant it as a 
personal remark about Hermione's teeth. He'd have said the 
same thing if it were her eyebrows -- or her earlobes.

Pippin