Does Snape bully Neville in HBP?

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> Finwitch:
Imagine Dumbledore 
> arranging one of his special lessons when Harry's still feeling angry 
> due to Snape's bullying behaviour towards Neville... Snape doesn't 
> want Dumbledore to find out about that sort of thing so he's NOT 
> doing it in front of Harry.


Potioncat:
There were several things many of us wanted in HBP. One was for Snape 
to get DADA just so we could see the interactions between Snape and 
various members of the DA. I have to admit I was unpleasantly surprised 
that we didn't see any of that. Sort of reminded of the fairy tale 
wishes...someone gets what they wish for, but not the results they 
expected.

 As for Neville, we get much less of him than we expected too. But we 
just are not told how Snape manages the DADA class. (At least, not that 
I picked up after 1 1/5 readings. 

My take was that Slughorn invited Neville because he is Frank and 
Alice's son. But, not seeing any of the exceptional traits of Frank and 
Alice in him, Slughorn didn't invite him to the club. In chapter 7, 
after the lunch he encourages McClaggen, Harry, Blaise (he uses first 
names here) and Ginny (he calls her Miss) to come by his office to 
visit at any time.

Neville and Belby are not mentioned. Oh, did anyone else think of 
Marcus Welby when they read Marcus Belby?

Potioncat (We of course, know that Neville has lots of exceptional 
traitls!)