Acceptable Abuses?

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No: HPFGUIDX 95778

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "karenoc1" <karenoc1 at y...> 
wrote:
> I don't understand about this one Dumbledore incongruity (I 
apologize 
> if this has been previously discussed!).  I'm wondering why 
> Dumbledore allows his students to be abused at all, and I guess I'm 
> thinking specifically about Snape.
 <SNIP> 
> Thanks for your thoughts!
> karenoc1


This has been mentioned before, but I think in the WW, wizards can 
take much more abuse than muggles.  Just in their environment alone, 
they have to deal with creatures and events on a daily basis that 
they sort of build up an "immunity" if you will, to certain levels of 
abuse.

I think Neville is an exception being raised by his grandmother.  He 
had to deal with trauma early on in life and was raised by a dominant 
old woman and probably had little social interaction with kids his 
own age.  So, this is why I think he gets picked on by Snape.  
Neville is an easy target.

As for Umbridge - DD knows a LOT, but he doesn't know everything.  I 
am sure he was keeping an eye out for her, but was put in a very 
touchy situation.  There was no way to prove that she was carving 
punishments into students hands.  If DD had gone to the MoM, Umbridge 
would have just said DD was lying or something and the kids were 
carving spells into their hands as sort of a twisted scheme to get 
her kicked out.  DD was in a position where he needed to remain at 
Hogwarts as long as possible.  He didn't want to step on any toes and 
be thrown out earlier than he already was.

Back to Snape and Potions, have you ever had a teacher who was 
absolutely unfair?  I had a teacher in 5th grade and 6th, who used to 
give students, and myself, punishments for doing nothing wrong, just 
because she felt like it.  One time she knocked into my desk and it 
knocked my crayons all over the floor and I had to pick them up, 
which made me late to my next class.  Well, she gave me a detention 
for being late.  That is just one of the many things she did to us in 
the class. Everyone in the class hated her, and pretty much everyone 
I have known that went through her class hated her.   So, there are 
unjust and unfair teachers out there.  She got away with it, and 
Snape gets away with it.  It's unfair, yes, but he is not physically 
hurting the students.  

As for Neville's toad, I don't know about that one.  Snape must have 
known a potion that would counteract the poison and stop Trevor from 
dying.  I DO think DD would have been furious and had something to 
say about that one.

~Mo