OOP: A few Points on Snape and other things

[LadyMyneh]

No: HPFGUIDX 61967

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Kewpie" <dkewpie at p...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Tamara" <buffyeton at y...> 
wrote:
> > --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "peggy baratto" 
> <petalla at e...> 
> > wrote:

> What angers me more was the indifference attitude of Dumbledore and 
> McGonagall for overlooking James and Sirius' ongoing behavior (and 
> the most unforgivable of all - completely undermine the seriousness 
> and consequences of that infamous "prank".) That's Hogwarts for ya. 
> No wonder when Snape became a teacher at Hogwarts himself he became 
> one of THEM -- teachers who played favorism, gloss over bully 
> incidents and just being plain unfair to students. It's just a 
> tradition of Hogwarts and general behavior of headmaster and 
faculty. 
> Snape's only fitting among the crowd of McGonagall and Dumbledore. 
> 
> D.

One would presume that James and Sirius did most of their bullying 
when the teachers weren't looking- they probably had some inkling of 
what was going on, but were unable to do too much about it, unless it 
happenned in front of their noses- and we haven't seen any instances 
where they were caught, so for all we know, Dumbledore and McGonagall 
did jump on them for it. It's unlikely that Harry would have heard 
too much about it from them though- after all, you don't generally go 
up to someone and tell them that their dead father was a bullying 
git, do you now?

I wonder if James's bullying nature could have also contributed to 
Petunia's dislike of him?