Question for Snape Bashers

[darrin_burnett]

No: HPFGUIDX 101888


> Alla wrote :
> > I am also in agreement with Batchevra - if Snape is uncapable of 
> > overcoming those effects of the abuse, let him hate those childrein 
> > in private, but not take it out on them.
> 
> Del replies :
> Why should we expect him to do that ?? Nobody is forbidding him from
> doing it, and I suspect he gets some kind of twisted pleasure out of
> it. So why ever should he restrain from doing it ??
> 


Why should we expect him to do that?

For the same reason I expect my neighbor not  to let his dog crap on my lawn.

For the same reason I expect the person behind me at the grocery store not to 
bump into my heels with a shopping cart.

For the same reason I expect my co-workers to do their job and not stick it on 
me.

And I disagree that D-Dore or others have not "forbidden him."

No one said Snape wasn't clever and capable of being secretive. And like 
many abusers, he has instilled such fear in his victims that they could be 
afraid to speak out for fear of retribution.

We don't know what D-Dore knows, frankly. When Snape speaks out against 
Harry in public -- PoA hospital scene, GoF tourney participants scene -- D-
Dore slaps him down.

Darrin
-- Finds it's better to expect people to behave themselves.