"Professor" Snape

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 98419

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "finwitch" <finwitch at y...> 
> wrote:
> > 
> > Army also has a requirement of obedience - but, particularly with 
> > Harry Potter-world, where there is a thing like Imperius Curse - 
> > well, taking orders from people just because they were born 
> earlier, 
> > or just because a third party put them in place where they SHOULD 
> be 
> > teaching you - well, it disables you from resisting Imperius 
Curse.

Wanda: 
> Could you explain that a bit, please?  Are you saying that being 
> polite hinders a person from being able to resist the Imperius 
> Curse? 
> > 

Finwitch:

I'm saying that being *obedient* disables ability to resist imperius. 
After all, obedience is the very thing the person casting it wants 
from you, and what that curse is about. And in this view, it doesn't 
matter what exactly requires your obedience - a rule, a parent, a 
teacher, a code of behaviour...

Obeying *anything* over your own conscience is what makes one unable 
to resist imperius. Voldemort may consider obedience a virtue(just 
read the end of GoF, he says so), but I do not, and neither(it's 
obvious to me) does Harry.

Snape aside, I respect the way Harry stood up to DUmbridge where none 
other had the courage to do so - including Harry's teachers. In light 
of the OOP, I view Harry Potter as being worthy of more respect than 
Severus Snape.

And - though I know that some would insist on acknowledging something 
called 'social status/class/rank', a concept somewhat alien to me, 
the little I do grasp of that system, offends my sense of ethics. 
Politeness, to me, is to acknowledge others. For example, Harry IS 
polite whereas Dursleys are not.

Finwitch