What's wrong with being bad ?

[melclaros]

No: HPFGUIDX 102026

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" 
<dumbledore11214 at y...> wrote:

> Now, let's see. The boy, whose parents were tortured to insanity 
by 
> the Death Eaters, is not afraid of Voldemort or his servants.


Mel
Well let's see. He's never MET Voldemort, and we have no idea of 
whether he was present during the visit of 'his servants'. He's as 
afraid of Voldemort as any of the other students there. They ALL 
have things that are more immediate in their lives and therefore, in 
their child minds more imminently terrible.


> 
> He is terrified most in the world of his Professor. If those are 
nott 
> he effects of the abuse, I truly don't know what is.  Thanks G-D 
for 
> Lupin's psychotherapy, or poor boy would never be able to let his 
> fears out in the open. :o)

Mel
And Hermione is more terrified of bad grades. 



> 
> 
> Eh? It does not happen in Hogwarts every day or at least we don't 
> witness it. Filtch talking about physical punishments? Maybe he 
just > wishes that they existed.

Mel
Maybe--but that's not what he says. What he says is that it WAS. 
That's the canon we have so far. There is no canon at this time to 
suggest otherwise.



> 
> Alla: Kneasy, how could you divide one from another? Students do 
not 
> know Snape as  aperson. They only know him as a teacher. That's 
the 
> only way he can demand respect from them - as a teacher.

Mel
Sorry, if someone REPEATEDLY saved my life and proved themselves to 
be looking out for my best interest I'd be cowed to realize I'd been 
thinking about them the way Harry thinks of Snape. Look at his 
reaction in PoA when LUPIN pretty much repeats EXACTLY what Snape 
has just told him--that his parents gave their lives to save him, 
that the WW is doing everything they can to protect him and here he 
is FLAUNTING that to go out for a fun run in town.
His reaction? "Duh". Then indignation, of course.