Tyranny (WAS Harry learning from Snape)

[dzeytoun]

No: HPFGUIDX 114549


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Paula \"Elanor Pam\"" 
<elanorpam at y...> wrote:
> 
> 
> This is a children's books, so Rowling is trying to teach the 
importance of
> respecting other people's rights. 

Unless, of course, you are an adult and the other person a child.  Or 
you are teacher and the other person a student.

If she wasn't, then it'd be understandable
> for outraged teachers to burn her books, alright.
> 
> And I repeat: Dumbledore is NOT a manager, or a general, or 
a "person in
> charge". As Headmaster of a school, he doesn't command the school 
or the
> teachers or anything.

You are absolutely incorrect there.  As Headmaster, Dumbledore is 
VERY MUCH the person in charge.  As head of the order, he is VERY 
MUCH the person in charge.

 He's more of a counsellor than anything else. And
> there's a reason why he's rounded up the OotP instead of accepting 
the
> invitation to be minister - that way, he can deal with the involved 
on a
> personal level, instead of sitting on his high chair and giving 
orders. He
> won't need to squash disruptive behavior, he'll sit and talk it 
through.

But he doesn't, does he?  Has he sat and talked through Snape's 
disruptive behavior?  Has he sat and talked through its effects on 
Harry and Neville?

Dzeytoun