Admonishing Snape

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 129534

Lupinlore:
> I have never understood the idea that McGonagall respects Snape
> (beyond the demands of her profession) or regards him with anything
> other than disdain.  The idea that she would be friends with someone
> who abuses the members of her own house is utterly ludicrous.

Pippin:
Now this one made me laugh. Don't you see that McGonagall is just
an older, wiser version of Snape? 


It's true we've never seen her gratuitously insult a student, but
then  we've never seen her with a student who gets on her nerves 
the way, oh, Sybil Trelawney does. Tripe, anyone? 

She's got a Snapish habit of making a  public example out of the kid 
she considers the smartest, and  she humiliates Neville in front of 
teachers and students from other Houses, too.  Did she have to give 
him the Remembrall in front of the whole school?


All you can say is that McGonagall is fairer (and that's saying a
lot) but that has come with the years. She's still sniffling over the 
way she treated Peter Pettigrew, and she let the Marauders get away 
with stuff that Draco and his gang haven't contemplated in their 
wildest dreams.

Child-centered education? She'd sooner put the inmates in charge of 
St. Mungo's. Minerva added a hundred points to a punishment 
when a child objected to it. She'd never  stoop to threaten a toad, 
she just  sent the kids themselves into mortal peril. And  she let 
an injured child run off  instead of  seeing bounced!Draco to the 
hospital wing.

To judge her educational philosophy by her actions, children are at 
school to  learn to be adults, and the sooner they grow up, the
better.

Oh, and the shady past? I'm sure there's a reason her student days
overlap with Riddle's. Could she have been  one of those intimate 
friends young Tom was boasting about?

We know she was a Gryffindor. But there's lots of reasons to 
think she'd have done well in Slytherin. And she'd have to have
a helluva lot of brass to admonish Snape for the way he treats
his students, after the way she let him be treated when he was
one.

Pippin