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Amen. The logical conclusion was for Harry and Draco to reconcile Gryffindor and Slytherin. But JKR doesn't do logic, she does revenge fantasies and childish protagonist favouring.
Snape was given a chance but was reduced to being a Gryffindor worshiper, someone who should have been a Gryffindor and was remembered and honoured for his Gryffindor qualities.
The only good Slytherin is a dead Slytherin.
Eta: also, every good thing Snape did was to atone for the horrible things he did before he became a spy. The worst things Draco did (torture) were under coercion while Snape was happy to let a baby die. He's the reason someone's parents are dead. Snape stans are gone in the head to believe that man deserved anything more than a literal child who didn't know what he was getting into and then wanted out. Just completely mad.
Snape didn't truly love Lily, romantically or platonically. If he did he would spare a thought for her baby. What he felt was a reaction to someone finally showing him positive attention and then guilt.
Jkr can say all she wants that Snape wasn't a hero but the way she wrote it (which is what matters), Snape was lionized in the end.
reminder that draco malfoy deserved the redemption that snape got
The sad thing is, the intention here is for us to agree with Hagrid and find what Draco went through funny and an appropriate punishment. In reality it was child abuse but somehow I'm not surprised that this ethically rather mean-spirited (if you know, you know) author would think otherwise and inflict her revenge fantasies on a fictional child instead of going to therapy.
As for Hagrid, that unqualified, incompetent moron should've never been hired as a professor of anything in the first place. He can't be trusted with children's safety.
“Yeh’ll do wha’yer told,” he growled, “or I’ll be takin’ a leaf outta Professor Moody’s book. ... I hear yeh made a good ferret, Malfoy.”
My love for these professors is really draining away, fast.
So, Moody changed Malfoy into a ferret. An action that is so beyond the pale against the rules Minerva drops her books in shock at what he’s doing.
And now Hagrid is mocking a 14 year old, threatening to do something that readers know he absolutely cannot do (both magic wise legally as well as in ability). The sheer audacity of threatening him with this, for refusing to do an assignment is obscene. Give him detention. Take points. Toss him out of class until he formally apologizes. Give him a zero for the day.
Hagrid threatens this in front of an entire class:
The Gryffindors roared with laughter. Malfoy flushed with anger but apparently the memory of Moody’s punishment was still sufficiently painful to stop him from retorting.
What kind of recourse does he get? Again. None. Draco Malfoy is an absolute brat, a bully, and often a little jerk. But I’ll always be on the child’s side when confronted with such unequal behavior by teachers in positions of authority over them. Hagrid repeatedly puts his students at risk he cannot or will not protect them from.
Even Harry, Ron, and Hermione say it was only a deep love for Hagrid that made them even consider trying to feed the skrewts. Hermione says they should be stamped out before they can breed. They share the exact same view as Draco Malfoy but will never say it aloud.