Snape's abuse (Re: Would an "O" for Harry vindicate Snape?)

[eggplant107]

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"Tonks" <tonks_op at y...> wrote:

> I have said before that I think 
> Snape has a dark sense of humor that
is not understood or appreciated. Hence,
> the remark about Hermione's teeth. 

And I think some people bend over backwards trying to find excuses for
that piece of noxious slime called Severus Snape. I also think that
when a child is in pain and has been seriously injured so baddly she
has been hideously disfigured, and that child although extraordinarily
brave has reached her limit and is near panic, and to chose that exact
instant to make a joke at that very brave child's expense, well,....
that is more that just dark humor, it is very close to being unforgivable.
And that's not the end of it, the last shred of any sympathy I may
have had for Snape evaporated in the last pages of book 5; After all
of Harry's heroism, after going through hell and despite his near
suicidal depression Snape figured Harry had still not suffered enough,
and so the mighty Hogwarts Potions master insulted Harry and took
points from Gryffindor. The only sort of person who would do something
like that is a bad man, a very very bad man, and a very small man too;
there is just no other interpretation.

Eggplant