Pomona decided to weigh in. "But what strikes me about all of this is, it was you who decided he should play quiditch. Mr. Potter didn't decide to try out for the team in his first year. He didn't even know how the game was played if the rumor mill is correct. Poppy even tried to tell you he was too small. Too lightweight to play such a rough game. You didn't listen. Because Filius is right. You wanted the Quiditch Trophy in your office rather than Severus'. I do believe you also threatened to punish him if you heard he wasn't practicing hard enough. I also know you've told him each year before the trouble starts you expect the trophy in your office at year's end. And you blame him for every game your house loses after he's evicted from the team each year. As if he's the only player on the team. You do realize there are six other players on the team don't you? That just because a game is usually decided by who catches the snitch that isn't the only way to win a game?"
Filius took over again having gotten his disgust under control. "So you can't seriously expect anyone to believe he only gets seriously injured when he's somewhere he doesn't belong and has no permission to be." Then he too set down his napkin and hopped off his chair. He followed Severus from the Great Hall hearing the slow swelling that meant his words had been heard by some of the students and were now being discussed amongst them.
Murmurs broke out behind him as those students who had heard the discussion, repeated it to others who hadn't. Every word Professor Snape had said to Professor McGonagal had been clearly heard by the student body already in attendance for their evening meal in addition to what the other Heads of Houses had said. Professor Snape had been trying to keep his voice down; to keep it between the adults as had both Professors Sprout and Flitwick. But his habit of using a silky-smooth, quiet voice in his classroom to deliver his lectures or when he caught a misbehaving student in the halls, had attuned the student body to catch even the lowest vocal commentary from him. If for no other reason, just so they could know why exactly their house had lost points again or someone had been given another detention. But especially when it was clear at a glance he was angry. Most especially when he was angry.
And Professor Flitwick's squeaky voice was just as recognizable albeit for different reasons. The student body genuinely liked Filius Flitwick and they all tried hard to pay attention when he spoke. He was generally believed to be the most fair and impartial teacher of all the staff. He also made his classes fun so they all enjoyed having him as a teacher. For all those reasons, when he spoke the students tried to pay attention. Because he had their respect and they wanted to show him it.
One of the first lessons student of Hogwarts learn was How to Read Professor Snape. It didn't matter which house you were sorted into. Learning to read Professor Snape was an important survival skill. It was important they learn it as quickly as possible since he was the teacher most likely to give out detentions and strike points or infractions of the rules. And he was the one with the hardest class to receive a fair mark in. But he was also thought of as one of the most fair right alongside Professor Flitwick. Because, while he did favor his own house in the awarding of points, he never actually struck points for no reason or assigned detentions unfairly or without reason as the other teachers would.
Well, except to Harry Potter. Potter could lose points just for showing up for class on time with his homework in hand. And he could get a detention over which hand held that homework assignment. But for everyone else, Professor Snape was completely fair. Hard to please. But fair. He also seemed to genuinely care about them. Which made the student body want to please him. Because if they did, they knew they'd done well. More than once he'd caught someone out after curfew trying to reach the infirmary. Instead of giving a detention or docking points and going on his way, as so many other Professors would do, he'd escorted the student to the infirmary personally, getting a symptoms list along the way to inform Poppy of why they were in her domain while they just crawled into the first available bed. Sometimes he just gave them a potion from his robes and escorted them back to their dorm seeing them inside safely before going on his way. He'd even been known to escort a student to their dorm and tuck them into bed personally a few times. Some said he even carried the most commonly need remedies in his robes just in case he ran across a student needing one. Because of that, he was the most respected teacher in the school though he didn't know it.
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