Emotion Maturity ?? was Re: Dirty Harry / 'Good' H

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 116777


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" 
<dumbledore11214 at y...> wrote:
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> Pippin:
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> > But stealing from your worst enemy is okay? Well, maybe so, 
but 
> > I doubt Snape views it that way, or Rowling for that matter. 
<g>.  In  fact,  I think this throws some light on the infamous tooth 
remark.  Harry's firecracker in CoS splashed Swelling Solution 
over half   the class. Harry got paid back by the snake, but I think 
in  Snape's  long, long memory for injuries, Hermione finally got 
what was  coming to her.<<
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> Alla:
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> Oh, no, no, Pippin, of course it is not OK under ordinary 
> circumstances, but I submit that circumstances were far from 
> ordinary there. :)

Pippin:
Let's not forget that the Slytherins happened to be completely 
innocent in this case. The circumstances were ordinary, except 
in Hermione's imagination.


Alla:
> I always respected you, but after this post my respect 
increased  many times. I love how you like Snape, without having 
any illusions  about his behaviour as to kids.

Pippin:
Thank you :)

Alla:
> It is entirely possible that Snape's remark about Hermione's 
teeth  was payback for what happened two years ago. 
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> Can I just question Snape's emotional maturity for doing that?

Pippin:

Emotional maturity? Snape? Maybe in fifty years or so --as far as 
vampires go he's probably still a teenager <g>

But seriously, if Harry needs a male role model to achieve 
emotional maturity, he's severely out of luck. Who's he got? Only 
Lupin "seems" to be mature according to JKR.  I can only hope 
Harry models himself on what Lupin seems  to be, and not what 
he turns out to be. But I think JKR may not approve of taking real 
people as role models, even for kids--idols always turn out to 
have feet of clay.

Pippin