I'm not proud of it

[ladyramkin2000]

No: HPFGUIDX 106906

Ginger, you are so sweet to equate called a teacher an old silly with 
what those boys did to Snape.  I assume you were a very little girl - 
is first grade like our reception? i.e. about 5 or 6?
I think one of the reasons that some of us take a graver view of the 
behaviour of James and Sirius is that we have experienced not so much 
bullying of ourselves (which is often possible to forgive (though not 
forget) and move on from, but bullying of our children, which is an 
entirely different matter.  My middle child, a gentle little boy, was 
badly bullied at school and I neither forgive nor forget what was 
done to him, so when I read about Snape's worst memory, it brings it 
all back. The Siriophiles and Jacobites can come up with as many 
excuses as they like.  The behaviour of both these boys (very nearly 
men) is still appalling.  How would you feel if Snape had been YOUR 
kid?

Sylvia (who still gets annoyed when that earlier piece of nastiness 
is referred to as a "prank"