[HPforGrownups] Snape's Hate

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 17030

Morag Traynor wrote:

> Harry does suspect that Dumbledore has stepped in to prevent Snape
> from actually failing him (presumably unjustly), so he does draw the
> line somewhere.  Having said that, I'm not surprised D gets daily owls
> complaining about his methods.  Neither Snape nor Trelawney could keep
> a job in a real school,

You mean a Muggle school. We have a good bit more bureaucracy than the
wizarding world yet enjoys. And I still think "life studies," i.e, how
to deal with the realities of life, is a better way to educate children
than insulating them from those realities and teaching them only ideals.
They need both.

> and now a student has actually died under his care.

No, a student has died in the Triwizard Tournament, as a result of a
totally unforeseen attack by the most powerful Dark wizard in many
years. The tournament is, in large part, outside the normal functioning
of Hogwarts as a school.

>  But then, wizard government seems to be rather haphazard at best, and
> wizards (including D) seem to take rather a robust view of life.
> Given Fluffy, the giant squid and Aragog, Snape is not the worst that
> Hogwarts students have
> to deal with :)

Except for poor Neville.  <g> And I don't think wizard government is
haphazard, so much that it is still a small enough population to be
effective on a more informal level. It is not yet to the size where,
simply to function, individuals *need* to be numbers or otherwise
impersonalized; there's still room for personality.

--Amanda, former state government employee


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