Conspiracies and re-assessments

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 111897

> Pippin:
> Ahhhh...community standards. Okay, but the community which 
> should apply is not yours, or mine, but Hogwarts. Is 'pantsing' 
> normal student fun at Hogwarts? Have we ever seen anybody 
> 'pantsed'  at Hogwarts before? Lupin says they were out of line 
> and he ought to know. This is not considered a bit of dirty fun. 
<snipping>
> doesn't tell Snape to be a good sport and buck up, does she?
> But perhaps you think canon takes a different view of evil? Are 
> you saying that in the Potterverse,a  person who does evil and 
> repents of it is not only evil no longer, but never was evil in 
the 
> first place? 


Jen: Potterverse barely flinched when a teacher turned a student 
into a bouncing ferret, much to the ferret's public humiliation; it 
turned a blind eye to the Trio leaving Draco, Crabbe & Goyle 
unconcious on the Hogwarts Express with tentacles and various other 
disfigurements sprouting from their faces; schoolkids can libel and 
slander each other in the Daily Prophet with no apparent 
consequence. I'd say in Potterverse there's a rather wide berth 
given for the behavior of kids at Hogwarts, and that the Marauders 
behavior with Snape, while reprehensible, was not considered evil by 
the other students (or fromw hat we know so far, the teachers). 

Jen Reese