First lesson again WAS: Re: Harry's detention in HBP

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> Ceridwen:
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>> And that's where I thought JKR was going with the Potions scene.  
I 
> don't think Harry meant to imply anything like "who the hell is 
> *this* weirdo".  Raising the eyebrows can also mean you're 
> impressed.  Or it could have meant that he and Ron were surprised 
> about the teacher's style without comment to his subject (which 
won't 
> please the teacher either, I'll bet).  But I do think he must have 
> done something to draw Snape's attention.  Coupled with his 
> celebrity, that made him doubly important, from this style's point 
of 
> view, to be set down.

Alla:

Yeah, he had green eyes and black hair and glasses. I think that is 
what set Snape attention first and foremost IMO.





Ceridwen:
> I have wondered, and I still wonder, if Harry isn't carrying over 
an 
> attitude and a resentment against school from his Muggle school 
days, 
> when Dudley and his gang seemed to get away with hurting and 
> frightening him under the teachers' noses, and that's where some of 
> this disregard for authority and school rules comes from.  To me, 
it 
> would be perfectly understandable if he thought teachers, and by 
> extension other authority figures, were ineffective in preventing 
> things like Dudley's bullying.  Understandable.  Not right, no.  
But 
> we're talking about a child, beginning at age eleven.  And the 
> Dursleys certainly aren't going to teach him anything!

Alla:

I snipped a lot of stuff about the **old days**, LOL, but I have to 
say if in the old days raising eyebrows meant getting what Snape did 
to him, personally I am very glad old days are gone :)

I mentioned to you before that I also do not come from very liberal 
school system in a sense that students would not be allowed to get 
away with from what I see students in school are allowed to get away 
with here in US these days. Oh, when I say **see** I do not see 
personally, I only hear stories, I must say.

But punishing student for facial movement I find beyond ridiculous, 
sorry. I also must say that I never saw that Harry even trying to 
talk back to Snape, I saw the kid honestly not knowing the answer and 
honestly answering that here is the student who knows such answer. 
Again IMO.

I agree though that Harry probably did not have the best school 
experiences in his muggle days and hoped for fairer teacher here. 
Speculating obviously. Ooops.