[HPforGrownups] back to Hermione, McGonagall and Snape was something else

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 128456


--- potioncat <willsonkmom at msn.com> wrote:
> This quote from PoA, chapter nine:
>That is the second time you've spoken out of turn, Miss Granger," 
> said Snape coolly. "Five more points from Gryffindor for being an 
> insufferable know-it-all."
> ...It was a mark of how much the class loathed Snape that they were
> all glaring at him, because every one of them had called Hermione a
> know-it-all at least once, and Ron, who told Hermione she was a
> know-it-all at least twice a week...<
> 
> 
> Can you not see it? Snape,in his usual self sacrificing way has
> taken a bullet for Hermione. He'll never get any credit for it 
> either, just the satisfaction that he has helped yet another 
> intelligent, socially backward student on the way to acceptance by 
> her peers. By cruelly calling her the same name her Housemates 
> used, he made her one of them.
> 
> See, although well meaning, McGonagall has further set Hermione as
> an object of derision among her classmates. She is the bar they are

> judged by, and she is very high. Who can hope to meet her tallent? 
> And she certaninly enjoys the attention. But Snape in one move, has
> leveled the playing field and made it possible for Hermione to have
> a more enjoyable Hogwarts experience.
> 
> Potioncat, (BTW does anyone know the counter spell for Tongue-in-
> Cheek?)


Well....actually that's a pretty fair assessment of what happened,
though, isn't it?  

Granted Snape didn't do it on purpose but it has the same result. 
Her annoying habit of immediately blurting out the answers as soon as
the question is asked - sometimes without the trouble of raising her
hand - and other teachers responding with "Excellent! Five points to
Gryffindor" was well on the way to making her the new Percy as far as
the other kids are concerned.  But now the kids can transfer that
dislike to Snape and don't have to confront the annoying reality that
they're actually jealous of Hermione.  

Magda


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