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

[amiabledorsai]

No: HPFGUIDX 129529

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "horridporrid03"
<horridporrid03 at y...> wrote:

> 
> >>Amiable Dorsai: 
> >No difference between the two cases--Neville was no more told to do 
> it "on his own" in this instance than in the other, nor, if we are 
> to engage in the sort of logic chopping you claim Snape is playing 
> at, did he tell Hermione not to help him--"I don't remember asking 
> you to show off, Miss Granger,"-- was all he said.  Hermione didn't 
> show off; she helped Neville quietly and without drawing attention 
> to herself.<
> 
> Betsy:
> Right, you force me to go to the books <g>.

<Snip Qote from PoA, illustrating Betsy's point>

> It would take a major twist of logic indeed to presume that Snape 
> actually *does* want Hermione to "help" Neville.  (And I don't 
> recall claiming Snape is not logical.)  To make it even clearer that 
> Snape wishes Neville to continue on his own, Snape assigns him a 
> mini-exam.

I don't think that Snape wanted Hermione to help, don't think so at all.  

But he punished Harry for *not* assisting Neville when Harry had no
more reason to believe Snape wanted that than Hermione did.  He's
given his students a no-win situation.

Suppose that Harry *had* paid attention to a cauldron not his own, and
had corrected Neville's error in Snape's hearing.  Do you believe that
his response would have been something along the lines of "Good show,
Potter--5 points to Gryffindor!"?

Amiable Dorsai