In Defense of Snape (Against Snape in JKR's words)

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Pippin:

> I'm sorry for the awful experience you had with that teacher, and I 
> can see why you'd want to see Snape as a stand-in for her, but to 
> tell you the truth she sounds much worse than Snape -- more 
> like Umbridge. One of the things we find out with Umbridge is 
> that Snape could treat Harry much, much worse than he does 
> and Harry would not complain about it. 

Talking of horrible teacher-pet incidents - aren't you forgetting Snape's attempt on 
Trevor's life? At the very least, he had Neville believe that Trevor will die. And I can 
totally see Snape say "that's no excuse" when a student explains she was late because her 
pet was run over. 


Naama