Snape ignoring HP blood (was: CHAPDISC: HBP8)

[krista7]

No: HPFGUIDX 146608

Sherry writes:
> > If Snape had no inkling of what had happened in advance of meeting 
> > Harry at the gate, then his behavior in ignoring the blood is more 
> > confusing to me. > 
> Jen: ....She doesn't advise 
> Snape to get Harry to the hospital wing, or that he needs immediate 
> medical attention, and she makes no mention of the blood. I would have 
> laughed out loud if Snape had shown any concern for Potter like 
> siphoning blood off his face when Tonks didn't even bother!

Agreed, if Tonks doesn't clean up Harry, why should Snape?

Even those who believe in ESESnape think he safeguards Harry, 
to an extent, to keep his place at Hogwarts. Snape points out in the 
infamous conversation with Bella and Narcissa 
that HP couldn't keel over dead on his watch, for what it would do to 
his position. He simply would not have let HP walk into the Great Hall,
 in front of *Dumbledore*,  blood-soaked *unless* the blood wasn't 
really that significant/he, Snape, could not possibly be 
blamed. (Hermione, p. 163, sees blood on Harry but is bewildered
 when he asks about his nose; note, there seems to be no 
physical injury to Harry, requiring attention.)

I also think Snape let Harry go into Hogwarts in that position as a
 teaching exercise. Call it what you will, but Snape lectures Harry 
for the two pages previous about being late, presumably wanting to 
make an entrance. (And disrupting people like Snape, who want to 
finish their pudding and not go out into the cold night to fetch a stray
 kid!)  From Snape's lecture, you get the strong sense that he thinks 
Harry is a diva (divo) who deliberately pulls 
a stunt every year to show up late and get everybody's attention.  So, 
like an alternate-universe Brady father, he makes Harry get 
precisely what Harry wanted (in Snape's 
interpretation), by ordering him to enter the Great Hall--alone, late, 
and exposed--so that everybody sees him. If Snape's interpretation 
of Harry's character had been correct, the experience might have 
been sufficiently embarrassing as to discourage any future last-
minute dramatic appearances.

Krista