[HPforGrownups] Re: Question for Snape Bashers

[julie w]

No: HPFGUIDX 101980



delwynmarch wrote:

> I, Del, wrote :
> > > Well, I'm still waiting for someone, *anyone*, to do something
> > > about Snape's classes.
>
> Darrin replied :
> > You expect a group of students to band together and say "Hell no, we
> > won't go!"
>
> Del replies :
> Actually, they did do it with Umbridge. We are told that entire
> classes started using the Skiving Snackboxes to skip her lessons. But
> we don't hear anything like that about Potions. And I don't think
> that's just because they are all too petrified by fear to think of it :-)

And I add:
I think that is more because they know they are receiving important 
knowledge, no matter how much of a prat Snape is, in Potions, whereas in 
Umbridge's class the kids knew it was BS and not going to help them so 
they were not willing to put up with her.

Del wrote:

> Life at Hogwarts is tough, and the kids have accepted that. We might
> not like it, but it won't change anything.

Not only is life at Hogwarts tough, I have a feeling that life in the WW 
is tough. It seems to be a world where children are expected to grow up 
fast and toughen up. I'm sure its been mentioned before, but this is a 
society that sees nothing wrong with throwing a kid out the window to 
scare up some magic in the child. We really cannot hold the WW up as a 
mirror of RL, its just not.
If it was, I believe parents would complain about Snape...Malfoy was 
more then willing to go after Hagrid after Buckbeak. It seems like the 
school Governors would deal with him if there were enough complaints. I 
think the parents all remember one or two crappy teachers and figure if 
they survived so will their children survive Snape.
Snape acts as he pleases and cares not what the children think because 
the adults are pleased with whatever results he gets. Snape is my 
favorite character and I really do not want to psychoanalyze him, or see 
him all angstsy but prefer to see him as the sarcastic, snarky, cruel  
bastard that he is. He may have ulterior motive for his actions, or he 
may just see the rest of the WW as a bunch of asshats. I'm not even sure 
he can be completely trusted, no matter what DD says and would love to 
find out he's really playing both sides against the middle in the 
end....I fear he will not survive book 6 or 7.
Pity, that.
Julie W in AR