Draco and Intent: Re: Snape and Harry's Sadism (was: Lack of re-examination)

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 186870

Carol earlier:
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> > The actions are canonically about a week apart. (See "The Prince's Tale." Given his detailed responses on the DADA exam, which occurs just before SWM, and his studying of the test after he's taken it, I think it's safe to say that Severus has spent most of that week studying for his OWLs. He has done nothing to antagonize Sirius and James, who merely say "Look who it is" before they sneak up on him and attack him without provocation.
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> > There's no canon whatever to indicate that Severus has fought his rescuer--at least not until that rescuer attacks him two on one.
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> jkoney:
> Since we don't know what Severus was doing, he could have been attacking mudbloods all week and was reviewing his test because he didn't have time to study.
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> No provocation? Wasn't Snape the one who was trying to find out what the marauders were doing and get them in trouble for it? That in itself is more than enough justification for teenage boys to turn on Snape. Rightly or wrongly they were provoked.
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Carol responds:

His detailed response on the DADA OWL, much longer than anyone else's, indicates that he has already studied. He's reviewing the exam questions *after* the test, Hermione-style, not studying them at the last minute. And had he been attacking "Mudbloods" all week, Lily would not have tried to defend him from the two self-confessed arrogant little berks who attacked him unprovoked. You don't save someone's life one week and jump out at him with your wand pulled intending to publicly torment and humiliate him, two against one, the next. That's not "cool" even in teenage boy culture, or so I would hope.

Carol, noting that Severus has already faced death for his nosiness and does not consider attacking a kid who's doing nothing wrong, two on one, to be justified under any circumstances