Slughorn favoritism/ Snape as Neville's teacher LONG

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 168615

Alla wrote:
<snip> 
 I am **yet** to see 
> a Hogwarts teacher who did the same things to **any** student as
Snape did to Harry starting with the first lesson. So, I am sorry but
I disagree. <snip>

Carol responds:
True, we don't know of any other teacher who asked Harry questions he
didn't know the answers to on the first day of class. But how is that
more cruel than a prolonged Crucio of a spider in front of a boy whose
parents were Crucio'd into insanity (all so that he can get Neville
into his office and use him as part of a plot to kidnap Harry)? How is
it crueler than calling Harry a liar in front of his classmates (and
making him write "I will not tell lies" in his own blood for that
supposed offense?

BTW, you said in another post that you didn't remember Slughorn
marking unfairly. It's unclear whether Slughorn actually marks the
potions that the students make in class as Snape does (he doesn't
supervise the making of them to tell them what they're doing wrong as
snape does, either). But surely, giving Harry full credit for cheekily
presenting a Bezoar (even the cheek is Teen!Snape's, not Harry's,
though Slughorn isn't observant enough to recognize that) when
Hermione has decanted ten poisons and added fifty-two ingredients to
her half-finished antidote *and* demonstrated that she knows and
understands Golpalott's Law when Harry doeesn't is not fair to
Hermione (or to Harry, for that matter; getting credit you don't
deserve generally comes back to you in some way). Marks or no marks,
Hermione is the one who deserves praise and recognition for making
such progress on a difficult assignment but Harry is the one who
receives them, all because he's Slughorn's golden boy and has his
mother's eyes (not to mention Teen!Snape's Potions book).

Anyway, Fake!Moody and Umbridge are crueler than Snape (though they
wound in other ways than sarcasm) and Slughorn is at least as unfair
in terms of favoritism. The only difference is that in Slughorn's
class, as in Lockhart's in second year, Harry is on the receiving end
of the favoritism.

Carol, who would much rather have Snape as a teacher than Fake!Moody,
Umbridge, Slughorn, Binns, Lockhart, Hagrid, or Trelawney