Snape/McGonagall/Neville (was: Admonishing Snape)

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No: HPFGUIDX 130158

 lupinlore wrote:
> > Snape applies his methods in such a drastically uneven
> > manner.  Granted, we haven't really seen him with Ravenclaws and
> > Hufflepuffs yet, but he certainly has a reputation for not liking
> > Gryffindors and being viciously unfair to them.

> Monika:
> We practically haven't seen McGonagall with anybody but Gryffindors, 
> maybe she's not much better than Snape? McGonagall is no saint, 
> certainly, she's seen as "good" character mostly because Harry likes 
> her. She criticized other teachers in front of her students (even
> more 
> often than Snape), sent first-years to the Forbidden Forest against 
> Dumbledore's explicit ban, was known not to bother with hiding 
> impatience torwards less gifted students of her own house (Pettigrew, 
> Longbottom)
> 


We know at least one example where a student failed a spell and 
transform another student into a badger, and we (Harry) heard her 
screaming at him from the hallways.

I don't remember if it's here that someone said Snape wanted to be like 
McGonagall, only he didn't understand everything.

He can see his preference to Slytherin like normal, if in his memories, 
he saw McGonagall let the Marauders without punishment but not him, or 
more strict with the Slytherins than with the Gryffindors. 

But McGonagall is not someone without discipline, so the chance are 
that when she didn't punish the Marauders, it's was when she had no 
proof, but when she catched them, the detention was severe, and he 
realized that. If they escaped punishment from her, it wasn't 
favoritism, but the lack of proof. And it was he followed them. Because 
he wanted proofs. It's an attitude he kept now, he didn't told about 
Quirrel to DD because he only had a feelings, not a proof.

I always found strange that Snape had a grudge against all the 
Gryffindor, even sometimes against DD, but never against McGonagall. I 
think he saw her like someone just, strict and fair, the incarnation of 
authority he likes. 

And he wants to be like that, he thinks he's like that. But he doesn't 
know the limits.

Christelle