[HPforGrownups] Re: Question for Snape Bashers

[Batchevra at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 101965

In a message dated 6/18/04 9:29:32 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
delwynmarch at yahoo.com writes:

batchevra wrote :
> Snape is in a position of authority, and he abuses that authority 
> in that he bullies both Harry and Neville.


>Del replies :
How do you know that he "abuses" his authority ? Yes he bullies Harry,
Neville, and countless others. But it doesn't seem to bother anyone in
authority over Snape. So to me it looks like Snape is *allowed* to act
that way if he feels like it. It's abuse in OUR eyes, but it doesn't
seem to be so in the WW's eyes. We must be careful not to apply our
own morals on another culture. (Alla is going to kill me for saying
that...)<
I am confused about what you are trying to say here, first you ask how Snape 
is abusing his authority and then in the next sentence you agree that Snape is 
bullying Harry and Neville. I am under the impression that the story tells of 
British culture which is in some ways similar to the United States, but 
different in its own way. I have always been tolerant of different cultures, I am 
not tolerant when it comes to people abusing children. When that line is 
crossed, I have problems with it, and Snape crosses the line in quite a number of 
ways. If Snape wants to be strict, then let him be strict, if he wants to be 
unfair than let it be, unfair. But don't abuse a child.

>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 ??<

The same way you were able to not abuse your child, Snape should have been 
able to restrain himself, I mean I'm sure he could have found more flies to zap 
instead of bullying Harry and Neville.

Batchevra


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