Face it, there is a reward for being nice (was Re: Sadistic Snape)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 140298

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lupinlore" <bob.oliver at c...>
wrote:

> Snape, on the other hand, is accused by a student who frankly and 
> unabashadly hates him of deliberately and cold-bloodedly murdering
the  headmaster and casting his lot in with the DEs.  The instant
response  from many of Snape's colleagues who have known him, 
in some cases,  more than twenty years?  "Yeah, I believe that,I never
did like the  ba****d!  Somebody like that just can't be trusted."  

Pippin:
I'm having a hard time finding that reaction in canon.

Here are the reactions of the adults:

Hagrid:
"Snape kill Dumbledore -- don' be stupid, Harry. Wha's made yeh
say that?"
"I saw it happen."
"Yeh couldn't have."

Madame Pomfrey:
 bursts into tears

Professor McGonagall: She stared at him for a moment, then swayed
alarmingly; Madame Pomfrey, who seemed to have pulled herself
together, ran forward, conjuring a chair from thin air, which she
pushed under McGonagall.

"Snape," repeated McGonagall faintly, falling into the chair. "We all
wondered...but he trusted...always...*Snape*...I can't believe it..."

Tonks:
"But Dumbledore swore he was on our side!"

Lupin:
"Snape was a highly accomplished Occlumens. We all knew that."

"We all wanted more help, we were glad to think Snape was on
his way."

Slughorn: "Snape!" ejaculated Slughorn, who looked the most
shaken, pale and sweating. "Snape! I taught him! I thought I
knew him!"


That they sent for his help against the Death Eaters and were all 
glad to think that they were going to get it does not argue that 
he was untrusted. And nobody mentions the way he treats 
students as a reason they shouldn't have trusted him, 
though McGonagall says they all wondered considering his 
history.

Anyway, Snape is on extended sabbatical to  say the least. <g>
The Snape's a bully plot is over, we've heard the end though the 
beginning is still to unfold. And his students have utterly failed 
to  have their spirits crushed or suffer any of the dire effects
predicted by various listies.

Snape did comparatively little bullying of Harry this year, (there's
no mention of how every class is a torture) , and none at all
of Neville, AFAWK. Neville is pretty much bully proof now, I think.
He's learned to appreciate himself for who he is instead of who
he thought he should be. Odd how humility is the real secret of
self-esteem. And it didn't take an apology from anybody.

Pippin