[HPforGrownups] Re: Slughorn favoritism/ Snape as Neville's teacher LONG

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 168657

justcarol67 wrote:
> 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.

Bart:
	Fake!Moody (no relation), Umbridge and Lockhart are CRIMINALS. That 
makes a big difference. We know about their criminal acts. Up until the 
time he kills Dumbledore, we know of no criminal actions that Snape has 
committed, only that he has associated with criminals, and gave them 
information he was legally entitled to give them which helped them 
commit a crime (and, from what we know, as soon as he discovered the 
criminal purpose for which the information would be used, he went over 
to the other side. In Western nations, at least, giving information to 
criminals without knowing in advance that it will be put to criminal use 
is not a crime, and going to the authorities as soon as you discover it 
will be used that way is considered to be convincing evidence that you 
did not know in advance what it would be used for).

	Bart