Question for Snape Bashers

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 101891


I, Del, wrote :
> > Why should we expect Snape 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 ??

Darrin replied :
> 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.

Del answers :
Yep, and if they do, you're going to do something about it, right ?
Well, I'm still waiting for someone, *anyone*, to do something about
Snape's classes.

Darrin wrote :
> 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.

Del replies :
We're talking about someone(DD) who knows when Harry leaves his
dormitory in the middle of the night covered by an Invisibility Cloak.
I won't believe that he doesn't know *exactly* what's going on during
Potions.

As for the kids being too scared to talk, I don't buy that either.
First because most of them are NOT that scared of Snape. Only Harry
and Neville are truly abused after all. And second because I'm sure at
least one of them *would* have mentioned that in their letter to their
parents. When one teacher terrorised my sister's class (11-year old
kids), it took only a few months for most parents to find out about it.

Darrin wrote : 
> When Snape speaks out against Harry in public -- PoA hospital scene,
> GoF tourney participants scene -- D-Dore slaps him down.

Del replies :
All he usually says is "that's enough Severus". Not what I would call
slapping him down. If DD truly wanted to convey to Snape that he wants
him to stop that behaviour right now, he'd find another way. We see
him silencing other people throughout the books by using his own
inside power or whatever it is, but we never see him use that power
against Snape. It doesn't look like he really wants to chastise Snape.
And if he, as the Headmaster, has no problem with one of the teachers'
methods, who will ?

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

Del replies :
I agree. But they should be given incentives to do so when they don't
find it in themselves to behave. Nobody's giving Snape any incentive
to behave, why should he care ?

Del