[HPforGrownups] Who's more out of line? (WAS: Snape and respect)

[Star Opal]

No: HPFGUIDX 51199

Tom wrote:
>For everyone who got so upset over Snape's treatment of Hermione:
>were you equally upset when Crouch/Moody turned Malfoy into a ferret
>and started bouncing him around?
>
>Were you as shocked and angry as McGonagall, or, like Ron, did you
>think it was farily amusing? I bet that some of us even thought that
>Malfoy *deserved* it, didn't we?

Okay I admit it, I thought Ferret!Draco was funny and was "upset" at the 
Hermione incident. BUT here are my reasons:

Ferret!Draco -
1) It was just SO BIZARRE! I had to read that part twice. The mental imagery 
alone...  how could it NOT be funny? I mean there's Draco being Draco and 
then *poof* he's a bouncy white ferret.
2) Instant karma for Draco.
3) At least someone called Moody!Crouch on it. McGonagall gets onto him 
about it. Not as sever a punishment he should have gotten for transfiguring 
and physically assaulting a student, but at least SOMETHING.

Hermione teeth -
1) Snape's usual cruelty hits an all time low in my opinion. Completely 
bellow the belt, COMPLETELY uncalled for.
2) While Hermione isn't perfect she is, at that moment, an innocent 
bystander.
3) As_far_as_we_know (since this is from Harry's POV) Snape never has 
anything said to him about this. Never punished verbally or otherwise.

So was what "Moody" did right? No. But for some reason what Snape said was, 
to me, in _MY_ opinion worse. When I read "I see no difference" I was 
genuinely angry. It was just mean, even by Snape standards.

Star Opal
who likes Crouch as Moody simply because Moody's so BIZARRE. Constant 
Vigilance!

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