What if other teachers behaved like Snape?

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 101120

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "arrowsmithbt" 
<arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:
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> 
> And just what have the Slyths done that's so terrible? They sneer, 
they
> strut, they name-call. How awful! They usually admire their 
fathers - 
> how un-natural! Flint cheats at Quidditch - throw him in Azkaban at
> once! Malfoy changes Hermione's dentition and gets changed into a 
> ferret, he makes a snide comment and gets his face slapped, he docks
> points when authorised by Umbridge (which immediately get replaced).
> He always loses. But it seems that isn't enough for you.
> Meantime  he and his buddies are regularly hexed on the Hogwarts 
> Express before they can even get their wands out. James's bullying 
> revisited. Er, tell me -  who're the Slytherins here? 
>


Well, Kneasy, this so-called "name-calling" is VERY hard to forgive 
for me.


No, it is not too late for fifteen year olds to change, but it seems 
to me (could be wrong, wrong, wrong, of course) that JKR has no 
desire to take any of the Slyhterins we already saw from the "evil 
path".


What this "name-calling" means to me as applied to real life? it 
means that the person who calls you such name holds a view that whole 
group of people (in my case nation) is inferiour just because their 
blood is different. It means that such person thinks that everything 
is the fault of jews. Jews should not get decent education, decent 
jobs, etc., etc. Yes, yes, i am talking about real life, but 
honestly, it just seems soooo similar to me.

No, I cannot think of such person as being a decent one. Sorry!


I am sure you remember what Malfoy and Co said before they got hexed. 
yes, IMO, they deserved what they got.


 
> Conflict is part of the plot dynamic. It's necessary, and since 
Voldy
> is little more than a back-ground figure, conflict and opposition 
must
> be shown elsewhere in the story. Harry/Snape/Malfoy makes for an
> entertaining alternative.
>

True.

 
> I haven't read any post *whining*  that Slyths get a raw deal, 
though I
> suspect there are posters who wish they did exist; it might help 
justify
> their chosen view. 


Kneasy, come on! No, I did not like the word "whining" either, but 
are you honestly telling me that you haven't read any posts that 
Slytherin House is prejudiced against, underdogs? These views have 
right to exist as much as mine or yours, but Darrin aslo had a right 
to pint out that such views exist.



I, myself, think that something has to be done with Slytherin House 
to save ne comers from this poison ideology.



Alla