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

[SnapesSlytherin at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 58563

In a message dated 5/22/03 6:03:41 PM Eastern Daylight 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?

One, without getting angry, I'd like to point out that they're not excuses 
for Snape.  *pause*  Sorry...getting angry.  I think there are better words for 
what we would say.  Perhaps "myriad of other *ideas*", because "excuses" is - 
never mind, not important now.  
You are defending Lockhart here.  It's not a double standard.  The reason 
that Lockhart becomes all the things you mentioned (fraud, incompetent idiot, 
braggart, and overall John Noble) is that HE COULD NOT CONTROL THEM!  If Snape 
brought in Cornish Pixies, he would be able to stop them from throwing wands and 
other things around.  But if Snape were to lock the Trio in with pixies, it 
wouldn't be because he wasn't competent enough to get them back in the cage - 
it really would be a test or something.  My hatred of Lockhart is showing here, 
but I think that he should have known how to control the pixies before 
busting them out in the middle of class - that was just stupid of him.  My point?  
Lockhart *is* a fraud, he doesn't become one just because of the infamous pixie 
incident.

~*~*~Oryomai~*~*~


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