Jenbea's sex question

[heathernmoore]

No: HPFGUIDX 31452

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., John Walton <john at w...> wrote:
> Rowena Grunnion-Ffitch wrote:
> 
> > Call me old fashioned and puritanical but somehow I
> > can't see encouraging sexual activity in teenagers as
> > a good thing. Snape's activities during the Yule Ball,
> > (ie: blasting necking students out of the rosebushes)
> > suggests that staff tends to agree with me here.
> 
> I disagree. The very fact that it's *Snape* doing the blasting portrays it
> in a bad light, IMO. Anything that Snape does is because he is mean and
> nasty. (Sorry, Amanda, but in canon that's true.) 


  I don't think canon gives us enough of a grounding to state this assertion as a tautology. We may have our varying *impressions* of Snape, but we do not know his motivations.