My husband's Snape observation

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 74000

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Amanda" 
<editor at t...> wrote:
. But the thing I missed was what he considered the obvious 
> parallel to Snape's being taunted--not Harry in the graveyard, 
but the DEs at the World Cup. Down to the same spell, he said, 
and he's  likely correct; the Robertsons were held in midair and 
at one point,  the Mrs. was flipped upside down.
> 
> I had completely missed this, and found it chilling, especially 
the  similarity of treatment of the victim. I'm at work now, can't 
analyze  much, but I was stunned that I'd totally missed this and 
wanted to  get other thoughts. Thoughts?<

I think JKR wanted to show that from the point of view of the 
victim, it's pretty hard to tell the difference between 
Voldemort-ism and Fudge-ism. This might lead a logical person 
to conclude that there is no difference, and that would be a 
slippery slope indeed. 

BTW, Darren, if you are reading this and tempted to step in with 
that supposed quote from Burke about the triumph of evil, you 
might be interested in this web page.

http://www.tartarus.org/~martin/essays/burkequote.html

Pippin
who can't find it in her Bartlett's either