[HPforGrownups] Re: OOP: A few Points on Snape and other things

[Rebecca Stephens]

No: HPFGUIDX 62219


--- LadyMyneh <ladymyneh at yahoo.com> 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 agree that unbehavior abounded.  But lets not forget
this happned during Voldemort's reign of terror.  They
were probably loathe to expell anyone, because
Hogwarts was a safer place.

But I still have trouble believing McGonagall and
Dumbledore allowed things like that to happen.  But
there is just no way they could have been unaware of
it.


Rebecca

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