[HPforGrownups] Re: Why Hermoine trusts Snape

[Shaun Hately]

No: HPFGUIDX 69644

On 12 Jul 2003 at 4:42, doliesl wrote:

> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Shaun Hately" <drednort at a...> 
> wrote:
> Since you're replying to my post so I assume you're saying I'm the 
> one who excuse Snape? Please go back to my original post and also 
> many others, no one is excusing what happened at all. That's NOt the 
> point of the thread anyways. We are just pointing why it is a in-
> character thing for Herminoe to trusts Snape despite what Snape said 
> to her. 

Please read my entire post. In particular this bit:

"(and, by the way, I am well aware that many people who defend Snape 
don't think his behaviour can be excused, they fully acknowledge that it 
was wrong, and I am also well aware that you have said this in your post 
as well - I'm just giving a particular perspective on it.)"

I am well aware of the fact that you are not excusing Snape. Indeed, I 
have explicitly said that in clear and plain English.

> -D (why are some Snape haters get so touchy at everything and take 
> everything so personally?)

Well, I do take it personally when people wrongly accuse me of holding a 
particular attitude when I've specifically said I don't in the post that 
they are responding to.

I wasn't taking anything you said at all personally. Just giving my 
perspective, having taken the trouble to read yours.

To make it 100% clear (because this bit probably wasn't), what I was 
responding to was this statement:

"Hermione just get over it and move on, it's NO BIG DEAL."

Personally, I think it is a big deal whether she got over it or not. 
Hermione's behaviour and response doesn't impact the rightness or 
wrongness of Snape's actions one way or the other.

They are a big deal because he abused a student. The fact the student 
got over it, doesn't change that in my humble opinion.

If I fire a gun at someone, the fact I miss, doesn't excuse my actions 
at all (though it may effect the legal position).
 
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