The eternal dance (was major theory)

[darrin_burnett]

No: HPFGUIDX 70491

Dan: 
> 
> Now, the world is becoming more litigious, or certain parts of it,  
> but Shaun and Darrin's unhealthy arguments against Snape, for 
> example, in the context of a book where a good portion of what goes 
> on would be construed as criminal in the RW, attempt I think to 
place the ethical imperatives evident in the books into an 
artificially bland, mainstream, institutionalized, television 
context. I mean, kids running around with wands would be like RW kids 
taking guns and  knives to school, by order, if such a 
simplistic, "letter of the law" approach were taken. To quote 
Snape, "I see no difference."
> 
 

Well, gee, thanks, DOC!

What is your prescription? Take two completely misapplied analogies 
and call you in the morning?

Tell me, is there a real world school where guns and knives are used 
in class? Where students buy individual guns and knives before the 
term starts?

I stand by what I wrote earlier. If you're not convinced, don't look 
at my posts, or anyone else's, then read the text, and read the kids' 
reaction to what Snape does, the Slytherin and the Gryffindor kids.

This is clearly not something that happens all the time, and the 
Slyth pleasant surprise and the Gryffindor outrage is proof of that.

It's not the real world that had a problem with it. It was the 
Hogwarts world, or a small portion of it. 

Darrin
-- Feeling very healthy, thank you.