Draco is quite the wizard

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> > Alla:
> > 
> > Um, we do not know that this was not a favor to Draco, for all I 
> > know he absolutely did not plan to ignore that incident but on 
the 
> > off topic chance that Dumbledore will see this incident in 
Snape's 
> > head, Snape needed a **reason** to account for punishing Harry 
and 
> > not punishing Draco, so smart man that he is, since Harry is 
> > completely innocent in the incident, he decides to bait him ( and 
> > what is better way to do so than insult Hermione?) and vo ala, of 
> > course Harry gets upset, who would not? IMO of course.
> > 
> > Alla, who thinks that Snape's special reasons are his hatred of 
> > Harry,who is his father's son,nothing more.


> zgirnius:
> Whic is why in my first post, I stated the assertion that this 
incident 
> is an example of favoring Draco is 'debatable'.
> For al you know, you are right. For all I know, you are wrong. The 
> scene is open to more than one interpretation, because we have, as 
> always, no reliable information on what Snape is thinking.
>

Alla:

Yes, of course most scenes are open to interpretation including this 
one, but while indeed we do not know what Snape is thinking, we 
**do** see him punishing the party who was innocent of the accident 
and **not** punishing the one who was guilty.

You think he had additional reasons for doing so, I do not, I take it 
as I see it.

So, yes, sorry but my interpretation sounds more reasonable to me :), 
because I do not need to come up with Snape thinking something to the 
contrary to what he did. But I can be wrong of course.

JMO,

Alla