Question for Snape Bashers

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 102353

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Wanda Sherratt" <

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> Well, I think this is starting to cheapen the word "abuse".  I 
don't 
> count as abuse just anything that makes a child unhappy.  Abuse to 
> me is akin to torture, either mental or physical.  None of these 
> things that Snape does is anything like that level of cruelty.  
He's 
> more like a boot camp instructor, making it hard for his students, 
> and taking a perverse pride in being so tough.  When Hermione gets 
> good marks in Potions, you know it MEANS something.


Alla:


And when Neville is afraid of Snape more than anything else in the 
world, it means something too.