Teaching Neville & Blood Prejudice(was:Rampant Ingratitude, was Re:Lusting...)

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 129522

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "horridporrid03" 
<horridporrid03 at y...> wrote:
 
> 
> Betsy:
 
> 
> As to the possibility of harm to Trevor, I somehow doubt Trevor 
> would have died.  He may have had a few uncomfortable moments, but 
I 
> doubt Snape would actually *kill* a students pet.  Snape is always 
> threatening the students with dire consequences, but the worst he's 
> ever done is given someone a detention. (And he's been one of the 
> most active faculty member in saving students' lives throughout the 
> books.) 

Hickengruendler:

I can't believe that I'm writing here against Snape, when I normally 
defend him, but I just found him really horrible in this scene. I 
didn't find him fascinating like I do in all of his other scenes, but 
just downright hated him here. (And I admit, the fact that Neville is 
my favourite character has probably a lot do with this).

Anyway, while I don't think Snape really wanted to kill Trevor, I 
also think he wouldn't have cared if Trevor had died. He knew that 
Neville was a horrible potions student, mainly due to his nerves, and 
it was absolutely unpredictable, which mistake he would make this 
time. Therefore about every result would have been possible, this 
includes Trevor's death. I will give you the possibility, that Snape 
saw that the Potion looked fine and therefore thought it was okay to 
feed it to Trevor. He might not have done so, if it looked really 
unusual. But this was not the impression I had while reading the 
scene, but like I said, I admit that it's possible.