Blame, blame, blame....

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 100618

> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Silverthorne" 
> <silverthorne.dragon at v...> wrote:
> 
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Anne:
> > Severus is an adult man in his mid thirties. Certainly, he should 
> know better, but then so should we all. In all my years, I have 
found 
> that really the only difference between children and adults is a 
> little more self control, if they bother, and the size of their 
toys, 
> responsibilities, and bank accounts. Adults hurt, can be hurt, and 
> are hurt, just as badly as children. And they act just as stupid, 
> foolish and babyish as children, whether they care to admit to it 
or 
> not. Like Harry, Snape should know better...like Harry, he should 
> really apply knowing better to what he does. Like Harry, he doesn't.
> 
Alla: 
> In all my years I found that the difference between adults and 
> children is much more profound than just degree of self-control. 
> Sure, adults can hurt just as much as children do, especially if 
> those adults never really got over the wounds of their childhood, 
but 
> children's psyche is much easier to break.
> 
> 
> snip.
> 
Anne:  
> > What bothers me about these Harry-Snape-Sirius debates is that 
> everyone is so quick to condemn the character they don't like and 
> defend the one they do...and yeah, we all do that, but some of the 
> sheer *venom* that gets thrown at the other character taht is 
painted 
> as 'the Bad Guy' bugs me. 'Well, they deserve what's coming to 
them!' 
> is a common attitiude, and I always think when I read that 'Oh, 
> really...? Have you stopped to consider that that's exactly what 
> people like Voldemort think right before they kill someone for 
> being...'different'.
> 
Alla: 
> The only thing which bothers me about those debates, because for 
the 
> most part I LOVE them is when as a fan of a certain character or 
> characters :) I am asked question like that:
> 
> "How dare I (well, not I, but fans of certain character or 
> characters; but since I a fan also, I take it as a question is 
asked 
> of me too) defend certain character or characters , because what 
> he/she did is indefensible.
> 
> 
> My only responce to such questions is "Huh?" That is what I am here 
> for.
> 
> I am NOT quick to defend or condemn the character. I do so, because 
I 
> believe in it or I do so simply for the sake of arguing.
> 
> I don't understand and I will never understand what is wrong with 
it.
> 
Anne: 
> > But Snape, Dumbledore, Pettigrew, Sirius--do you *really KNOW 
> what's going on...or just what Rowling chooses to show you? Most 
> everyone thought of Snape as 'just' a bastard...until we saw some 
of 
> those memories, heard some of his story...now we're not so sure, 
are 
> we? (Well, some are, but...well...that just means that it wouldn't 
> matter what Snaoe did--he'd still be the 'Bad Guy' to some...).
> 
> 
Alla: 
> No, I don't know what is going on in the other characters' heads, 
but 
> I believe that I am entitled to make a judgment call based on the 
> facts I have right now.
> 
> 
> If I will be proven wrong later, I will be incredibly happy. 
> 
> By the way, I NEVER thought that Snape was a complete bastard since 
> the end of book 1. Jerk? Yes. Bully? Yes. Has no business to be 
near 
> children whatsoever? Absolutely.
> 
> 
> But not a complete bastard nevertheless.
> 
> 
Anne: 
> > Please please please try and consider the 'other side' before you 
> jump on the 'Well this one is right, and that one is just plain 
> wrong', especially since we *don't* know the whole story....and we 
> also all have different views on how things "should" be.
> 
Alla: 
> No, we don't know the whole story yet, but it is fun to jump to the 
> conclusions and be proven wrong afterwards.
> 
> 
> Alla