Snape and the Longbottoms

[hickengruendler]

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> Valky:
> I know Hickengruendler, you specified that your three theories are pre
> HBP, and IMO that is the place where those three and Del's theory fall
> down in the middle. 
> 
> Does any of these theories give a plausible explantion as to why
> Neville was not a target of bullying in Snapes HBP DADA class? 
> 
 
Hickengruendler:

Yes, I think they do. At least the second and third one do. Snape 
realises that Neville is better in DADA than in Potions and therefore 
not as inept as he thought him to be. Therefore he is less frustrated 
with Neville than he was before and treats him a bit better.

Also, IMO JKR wrote him a bit less horrible in the classroom scenes in 
the later books. He still enjoys teasing and belittling the students, 
but he's not extrem as in the earlier books, IMO.