Writing off Slytherins was Snape and Harry again. WasRe: Snape in the Shrieki

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Nora wrote:
>>[And, I've always wondered, if Snape does that out of some perverse
sense of 'equalizing the playing field', or 'defending his poor
Slytherins who the rest of the school and teachers hate', does he not
see how it can, ummm, backfire?]

Let me piggyback a question onto this. Trolling around the fandom, I
do often see the assertions: 'Dumbledore has written off all the
Slytherins; everyone at school hates them, including their teachers;
the world is set against them'. Is there any solid support for this,
canonically, or is it a mixture of some possiblity and a lot of
projection?<<

Potioncat replied:
>>I don't think everyone has written them off. McGonagall hasn't and 
I don't think Flitwick has. I can't remember if we've seen an 
interaction with Sprout. Even Hagrid's comment to Nott(?) in class 
seemed friendly or at least neutral.<<

HunterGreen:
I agree that the teachers haven't written them off and certainly not 
ALL the students have done so. But sometimes, if you look at it from 
the perspective of Slytherin not being a house full of Dracos, its 
not hard to feel a little bad for them. When it comes to the house 
competition and Quidditch competitions all three other houses are 
rooting against them. And there's Dumbledore's last-second points 
giving in PS/SS too. I think his goal there was to build up Harry's 
self-confidence (since he did, after all, subtly encourage Harry to 
go after the stone), but did he have to do it AFTER the points had 
been tallied?  

I had never really thought about Snape favoring the Slytherins 
to 'equal' out things. Could it be that he remembers how things were 
whne *he* was a Slytherin (and everyone used to favor those 
*Gryffindors* Sirius and James)?