[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape, Apologies, and Redemption

[Kim]

No: HPFGUIDX 152307

nethwen2:
<major snip here>Professor Snape, on the other hand, is a VERY strict 
teacher who has exceptionally high standards.
Harry and Neville (bless him) are poor students.  They do not make the grade 
and they never will - although Harry of course has extra help what with 
Hermione doing his homework for him and his acquired Potion's book where he 
repeatedly cheats throughout the year.  *sorry going off on a tangent there 
lol.  I can't stand cheating*.  Okay, so what Professor Snape does is 
humiliates, and punishes weakness, nothing more.  He lashes out with his 
tongue.  I do not think such actions warrant being brought before the 
headmaster and being brought to task.

Kim:
I have to disagree with you here.  From moment one in Snape's class, before 
Harry had any chance at all to prove himself an able or poor student, Snape 
humiliated him.  On many occassions his tactics of humiliating Harry and 
Neville reached cruelty levels.  And when Snape gives Harry zeros for 
potions that are better than those made by some others in the class, he's 
not just humiliating a poor student.  Harry was not so poor a student that 
he was not doing work that would at least get him half credit, along with 
nearly everyone else in the class.  Snape gave him zeros on several 
occassions that should have been given at least some credit.  I don't see 
him as merely humiliating a poor student and punishing weakness (which in 
itself is an abhorrent thought).

If there's one thing I'd change about the books it would be that Dumbledore 
would step in and refuse to allow abuse of the students in his care.

Kim