Cultural standards for Snape abusiveness/Karma again/Mcgonagall and Neville

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>Amiable Dorsai
>Just a quick query: when has Snape saved Harry? The time Quirrelmort
>cursed his broom? OK, I'll give him good intentions (probably), and
>of course he gets credited with an assist, but Hermione is the one 
>who actually (and accidentally) saved Harry.

Orna:
Yes, this one. It is true Hermione made the final save, but it was 
done accidentally, as you said, and after some long minutes of being 
tossed between the clouds. Anyway, if Hermione hadn't accidentally 
run over Quirrel, she might have killed Harry – setting Snape on 
fire. Perhaps that's why Hermione seems from PS on to be more 
reluctant to accept Harry's accuses. 
One might ask, of course, why Snape didn't do the obvious thing, 
Hermione tried to do – break the eye contact between Quirrel and 
Harry. But – perhaps he didn't know by then that Quirrel was 
Quirrelmort, perhaps Snape doesn't like such inelegant 
interventions, which on top of it reveal him as a Harry-saver, 
(still, he could have elegantly cursed Quirrel), or perhaps he is 
just ESE!Snape, who didn't want to save Harry, just to appear like 
that

I just want to remind us that McGonagall and Mme Hoch were also 
there – doing nothing. As far as we know - Only Snape, Hermione, and 
George and	Fred tried to do anything about it.
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The other one – he did alarm the order to Harry being probably in 
the MoM in OotP – quite a life-saving act, IMO. One might argue that 
it was done to save his position as DDM!.  
That's what I've been thinking about – in the PoA Snape's 
intervention didn't help much to save Harry's life, on the contrary –
 it complicated matters, and although one might argue that it was 
brave of him to rush into a place where Sirius and a possibly 
dangerous werewolf were, I don't think he did it for Harry – he did 
it IMO for sweet revenge. Otherwise the first thing he would do 
would be to drive the kids away from a place where seemingly-
dangerous creatures were. So, I didn't count PoA as a life-saving 
act.

Orna