Parenting Harry (was: Re: I don't like him much)

[totorivers]

No: HPFGUIDX 120020


> dcgmck:
> For the purposes of the epic, Harry's defiance and distrust of 
> Snape will probably prove warranted in the long run, but from a 
> RL perspective it is also easy to see Snape as a well-intentioned 
> disciplinarian who has not had first-hand experience with the 
> leavening effects of 24/7 parenting of his very own offspring, 
> whether because he doesn't live with them or because he doesn't 
> have any. <snip>


Toto:
Once again I must say I am confused. In OotP, Harry got on my nerves. 
Why? Because he wasn't thinking, and was angry at people without 
realising he had the power to change that, if he just talked, 
something he never does. But Snape, a well intentioned disciplinarian? 
There is limits a disciplinarian does not cross. One of them is 
sacking the child, sending him to an abusing household, and so on. 
Snape tried to get Harry expulsed. *And* he was happy about it. He 
tried to kill Sirius Black in the most painful way imaginable 
without hearing what Harry had to tell. And so on. *Maybe* Snape 
believes himself in the role of the disciplinarian, but in that case, 
it's just an excuse for his hate to sift through.

Toto