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

[naamagatus]

No: HPFGUIDX 122111


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Shaun Hately" <drednort at a...> wrote:
> On 16 Jan 2005 at 22:01, naamagatus wrote:
> 
> > 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. 
> 
> I really think the 'Trevor incident' gets overstated.
> 

<snip>

Pippin, as far as I understand, was referring to an incident told by a listee, where a 
teacher treated the loss of a pet with indifference and total insensitivity. Pippin said 
that this teacher seemed worse than Snape. I brought up the Trevor incident to show that 
Snape has been actively cruel regarding a child's pet (in making Neville believe Trevor can 
die) - which makes *him* worse than the RL teacher. That's all. 


Naama