[HPforGrownups] Re: OoP SPOILERS: Worries for Harry? Warning: Long Reply

[Sunnylove0 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 58490

In a message dated 5/22/2003 4:03:40 PM Mountain Standard Time, 
innermurk at catlover.com writes:

> I'm not defending Lockhart here, but I do have to ask why it's all 
> right for Snape to mistreat students as a "learning tool" and it's 
> not ok for Lockhart to do so. There seems to be a double standard 
> running around here. Let's face it if Snape had set the trio in a 
> room and unleashed a bunch of cornish pixies on them, some on this 
> list would argue that it was an important lesson, he was trying to 
> toughen them up, he was grooming them to fight the Dark Lord, and a 
> myriad of other excuses. But when Lockhart does it, he's just a 
> fraud, braggart, and an icompetent idiot?
> 
> 
> 

Being a purveyor of the "Snape is trying to toughen up the trio" theory 
myself several emails ago, I can see your point.  But first of all, Snape, while 
being harmful to the mental and emotional health of his students, draws the line 
at physical harm.(makes sure Longbottom is carried to the hospital wing after 
his cauldron explodes, and saves Harry from falling off his broom in PS/SS, 
for example).  If he really unleashed a cage full of Cornish pixies on a class, 
I doubt he would just sit there while the students were obviously *not* 
handling the situation.  And we all what Lockhart did.

The Queen of Serpents


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