Snape--Abusive?

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 114783


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dzeytoun" 
<dzeytoun at c...> wrote:
> 
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" 
<foxmoth at q...> 
> wrote:
>  It wouldn't be very satisfying to me if Harry was noble enough 
to forgo vengeance on  Pettigrew  for killing  his parents and then 
took out his wrath on Snape for insulting  them. To paraphrase 
something Ron never said, he'd really  need to rethink his 
priorities.

Dzeytoun:
> But he wasn't going to forgo vengeance on Pettigrew, Pippin, 
he was  going to send him to Azkaban.  That's hardly forgoing 
vengeance, or  justice as the case may be.  Now, it's true he 
believed that there  are certain places you shouldn't go for 
justice/vengeance, and I'm  sure that he still believes that.  Which 
is probably going to be a  big deal for him as he wrestles with 
having to kill Pettigrew.<

You write as if justice and vengeance were the same thing. Harry 
was willing to turn Peter over to justice, even such imperfect 
justice as the wizarding world affords.  He was not willing to have  
Sirius and Lupin to become killers just for revenge. I would not 
like to see Harry become a public humiliator just for revenge 
either. It wouldn't cure Snape, or at least it hasn't yet--and how on 
earth could JKR top the boggart scene anyway?

Dzetyoun:
>  But just as he was ready to appropriately  punish Pettigrew by 
sending him to Azkaban, I expect him to  appropriately punish 
Snape for his behavior.  <

Where do the books indicate that it is  appropriate for someone 
who does not have lawful authority to punish anyone -- isn't that 
what we're complaining about when we say Snape abuses his 
power?

Pippin