"You know that if it had been Malfoy or one of his goons, he would have never been yelling at him like that, and, if one of them developed so much as a fucking hangnail in his class, he would have sent someone to fetch Madame Pomphrey right away! I swear Harry, I know I told Professor McGonagall that I'd try to change things peacefully first, but I'm very quickly losing my patience. It's not only Snape; it's the attitude of a lot of the students and professors as well. It's obvious to them, that since I can't trace my bloodline back to Merlin and Circe, I'm not worthy of calling myself a witch! I may as well be a trained monkey in the zoo, for that's all they see me as, a damned curiosity!"