Draco's anger (was Snape and Occlumency)

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Julie: 
> I also agree that he was being a professor here. What would 
> McGonagall do if she came upon Harry attempting to curse
> Draco? She would be stern with him and probably take those 
> same 10 points away. The difference is she would afterwards 
> take Harry aside and offer some measure of sympathy, while
> still letting him know his behavior was unacceptable. Snape
> won't. The best he'll do is moderate the invective of his response.


Potioncat:
Well, she did take the 10 points, but we never saw her taking Harry 
aside and offering sympathy.
 
> Julie,
> who finds Snape in OotP the closest he's yet gotten to treating
> Harry "nicely"--both in the above confrontation and during the
> Occlumency lessons when he said Harry's performance was
> passable.

Potioncat:
I agree.  I'd love to know what Snape was going to say before 
McGonagall walked in. 

I'd like to add that I do not think Snape celebrated Black's death. 
Snape tried to keep Black out of the fray, in my opinion both 
because he was needed and because he was in no condition to go on 
the mission.
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