[HPforGrownups] Re: Dirty!Harry and Stoned!Harry

[Irene Mikhlin]

No: HPFGUIDX 43379

Dicentra wrote:

> Oh, and BTW, for those of you fretting about how Sirius let Snape's
> head scrape on the tunnel's roof, I noticed this: "[Snape] clicked his
> fingers, and the ends of the cords that bound Lupin flew to his hands.
> 'I'll drag the werewolf. Perhaps the dementors will have a kiss for
> him too --'"
>
> In my book, dragging a conscious man's body across bare, stony ground
> is much worse than a few scrapes on the head of an unconscious man.
>

Isn't it very telling that Snape is always judged by what he threatens to
do,
or what the other characters suspect he would want to do:
killing Trevor, feeding poison to Harry, failing Gryffindors in Potions,
feeding innocent people to Dementors etc. ?

He is so convincing that the readers feel like he actually did it.
So, to answer your question - no, threatening to do something
can't be worse than doing something else.

Irene