GoF CH 27-29 Post DH look/ Snape and Harry and Gargoyles

[littleleahstill]

No: HPFGUIDX 182160

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "montavilla47" 
<montavilla47 at ...> 
wrote:
>> 
> Alla:
> > Snape taking Harry's book away in PS? Sadism, pure sadism in my 
mind. 
> > Snape reading newspaper about Harry in class even bigger sadism 
if 
> > you ask me.
> 
> Montavilla47:
> Frankly, I think the book was just Snape enforcing school rules.  
The
> newspaper thing?  Pure spite.

Leah: Agree with Montavilla about the book.  And sadism is a delight 
in 
cruelty to others. I don't think even Harry would describe the 
removal 
of a book as an act of cruelty, annoying perhaps.

As to the newspaper, after the reading, Snape sits Harry at the 
front 
of the class and tells him, sotto voce, what he thinks is wrong with 
Harry's behaviour, in terms of rule breaking and in particular, 
theft 
from Snape's supplies.  When Nightshirt!Snape encountered Harry and 
CrouchMoody earlier in the book, Snape's office had just been broken 
into.  Harry correctly denied doing this, (it was of course 
CrouchMoody), but Snape now knows that Harry used gillyweed in the 
TWC 
and therefore believes Harry stole this from Snape and was lying 
earlier.  (Dobby was the actual thief, but Harry isn't at all 
bothered 
as to the legality of aquiring his gillyweed).  Snape also blames 
Harry 
for the disappearance of boomslang juice, which is again down to 
CrouchMoody, but Harry was complicit in Hermione's theft of the same 
polyjuice ingredient from Snape in COS.

So I think the newspaper reading is revenge for what Snape sees (not 
entirely wrongly) as Harry's thieving and lying.  Yes, 
it is petty and childish, but not coming completely out of the 
blue.  
And it was very funny (sorry)

Leah