They're teenagers

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 125627


Julie wrote:
> > (BTW, I don't subscribe to the theory that Snape is mean to
Hermoine because she's Muggleborn, not when it's so easy for him to
resent her because she's a know-it-all, a Gryffindor, and a close
friend of that cursed Harry Potter!)

Valky responded:
> What then of the very first Potions class? when he simply refused to
even let her speak. It couldn't be because she was a know it all, or
because she was HP's friend because in Snapes view she was neither at
the time. Simply because she was Gryffindor doesn't quite seem enough
to me?

Carol responds:
I think it's simply because Hermione was interfering with what he was
trying to do. He was interested in what "our new celebrity" did and
didn't know, not in receiving the correct answers from another
student. It couldn't have been because she was a Muggleborn (how could
he have known that?). And she *was* already presenting herself as a
know-it-all (though not, of, course as a friend of Harry's).

Carol, hoping that she won't be regarded as a know-it-all for pointing
out that it's Hermione, not Hermoine