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

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 122115


Naama:
> 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< 
> 

Pippin:

Um, no, actually I meant the one who implied that Irish people 
were drunks and so on. That wasn't the same one, was it? But I 
think if you've had bad experiences with a RL teacher who 
reminds you of Snape,  they get projected on to the character, 
and if you've had good experiences with a Snape style teacher 
they get projected too. IMO, we'd all like to validate our 
experiences by having Snape get the fate we wish our real life 
teachers could have had.

Anyway, IIRC, in canon  it's Hermione who treats the loss of a pet 
with total insensitivity and more than once. Does that make her a 
DE?

Pippin