Evil Snape

[susanbones2003]

No: HPFGUIDX 154507

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "cubfanbudwoman" 
<susiequsie23 at ...> wrote:
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> SSSusan:
> It's awfully late to post on this, but I did have a thought here as 
I 
> try (yet again!) to catch up around here. 
SNIP

> Pippin gave a couple of examples of Hermione & Ron letting Harry 
down 
> in "grand scale" ways.  To those I'd also add Hermione's handling 
of 
> the setup of Dumbledore's Army.  I believe she REALLY handled that 
> poorly, where Harry was concerned.  She knew she was making it a 
much 
> bigger group than she'd led Harry on to believe, and she also 
didn't 
> prepare him at all for what she planned for that first gathering in 
> the Hog's Head.  It's like she knew what SHE wanted, and she didn't 
> really care whether it's what Harry was comfortable with or wanted 
or 
> not.  
> 
> She had her reasons for doing it as she did, but I think the simple 
> truth is that she believed that Harry didn't know what was best and 
> that she did.  I find that obnoxious & arrogant, myself.  Some 
> listees may agree with her, but in terms of how **Harry** felt, I 
> think he did feel quite let down by her.  He was ANGRY with her in 
> the Hog's Head, and I think he actually felt somewhat betrayed by 
> what seemed to him as her conning him or setting him up.  Or at 
least 
> that's how I read the scene.
> 
> Whether in the end it all worked out okay or not, in the MOMENT I 
> think Harry really did feel let down by her.  I would have felt the 
> same.  Hermione really put him in an awkward position, and he was 
> forced into doing/saying things he really did not want to.  I'd 
have 
> felt let down as well.
> 
> Siriusly Snapey Susan

SSSusan!
Glad to see you back! But I think you are making way too much of the 
over-large crowd that greeted Harry at the first DA meeting. I know 
he was shocked, a little irritated but let down? I can't see it. 
Maybe surprised so many people wanted to learn DADA and from him. 
After all, he was just coming off being smeared by the Ministry. I 
will have to go back and read carefully, but wasn't he actually 
excited after the initial shock wore off? I recall him thinking about 
lesson plans and getting quite jazzed. Sometimes your friends do know 
what you need better than yourself. This is a fine example of 
Hermione's know-it-all behavior but not a let-down, not a failure to 
stand by or work for Harry's greater good.
Jen D. (back herself from a time in another strange land and glad to 
be here...)
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