Who is the adult (Was: Who's to blame for Occlumency?)

[darrin_burnett]

No: HPFGUIDX 100790

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> Alla:
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> Darrin, I love your posts, especially because I agree with the 
> majority of the points you make, but I want to ask you the same 
> question, I asked another poster earlier.
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> Why, why, why do you find the hatred of Harry Potter to be 
disturbing?I am genuinely curious.
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> If poster states that he/she loves/hates the character to me it 
says absolutely nothing about the poster except his/her literary 
> preferences.
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> Just as much I am entitled to scream till my face is blue how much 
I 
> hate what Snape does to the children he teaches, people who hate 
> Harry entitled to do the same. :o)
> 
> Why is it disturbing?


I really do wonder about people who find such fault with Harry, who 
seem to speak of Harry with such disdain, who adore everything about 
Snape and sometimes, the other Slytherins - (Please note that I am 
not applying all of this to this particular poster - I simply have 
not read enough of his/her thoughts to know) 

It makes me wonder what they get out of the books, if they are 
cheering for the bad guys.

And this gives me the chance to post one of my other moderately 
infamous rants, which my young friend Talia Dawn will remember.

The Slytherins ARE the bad guys.

They aren't the underdogs. They aren't misunderstood. They aren't 
just waiting for a big old hug from some goth teen to redeem them.

They are thinly veiled cariactures of Nazis and KKK and Hitler Youth 
rolled into one.

I'm sure there are those who would find fault with me saying this, 
but the books are titled "Harry Potter and..."

Not "Draco Malfoy and..." Or "Severus Snape and..."

So maybe I give Harry more slack than other characters. Not only 
because he has gone through more grief at a younger age than any 
other character -- I'll grant that Snape was bullied in school, but 
did he have to fend off a version of V-Mort four times in five 
years? -- but because at the core, he's the guy to root for.

Darrin