Harry in NEWT Potions Class? (Was: Is Snape confident?)

[Blair]

No: HPFGUIDX 87663

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" 
<dumbledore11214 at y...> wrote:
> Believe it or not, after OoP I do think that Severus MAY turn out 
to 
> be the devil.

I'm not even gonna comment.  I must try to be nicer.  I'd like to 
stay on this list.

> Please, please refer me to the incident where Snape took a bullet 
for 
> Harry or at least ATTEMPTED to do so. ( I do understand that it was 
a 
> metaphor :o))

The comment I was replying to was "protecting students".  Since there 
is no danger of me being cursed off my broom, I used the only thing I 
could concievably be in danger of.

> That's where I very strongly disagree. He is fighting a war indeed 
> and if the rules are broken with the noble intentions in mind, I do 
> excuse it.

How do we decide who's rule breaking is allowed and who's is not?  Is 
it ok for Fred and George to break the rules?  He wasn't even 
punished for the flying Ford Anglia!  They raided Severus' cabinet 
(and I don't think they would have been punished even if they had 
been caught)!  

> Another very strong disagreement, no matter what physical and 
> emotional hell they had been through, they are fifteen year old 
> children and at the beginning of the books were eleven year olds.
> Do you think that in the first book Harry was not a child either? 

No one else agreed with me either.  How does everyone else 
define "child"?  Is it just by age?  To me, a child is someone who 
doesn't understand what is going on around them, cannot do anything 
about it, and refuses to do anything about it.  Harry was a child 
when it started, he hadn't fought anyone.  Child is a relative term.  
I stand by what I think even if you all seem to think I'm stupid for 
thinking it -- I'll deal.

Oryomai