Snape and Harry again.

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 113191

 
> Alla:
> 
> Where to start? Pippin, didn't you consider James to be "evil" 
based  on what he did to Snape in the Pensieve scene?
> 
> What exactly did James do to him, except making him look bad 
in  front of the whole school?<

Pippin:
You mean, besides the unprovoked  magical attack  and the 
sexual humiliation?  I give you my word, if Snape ever makes an 
unprovoked magical attack  on Harry  or sexually assaults him, I 
will call it evil.  

(I know that pantsing is not much as sexual assault goes, but it 
is as much sexual assault as I want to see graphically depicted 
in the Potterverse. )

Not that I don't believe speech can be evil, but Snape's words 
didn't affect Harry except for his reputation with the Slytherins, 
and they would have laughed at Harry what ever he did. Harry's 
life has been made occasionally unpleasant by Snape, but it's 
not like he's having nightmares or throwing up, or flunking all his 
classes, at least, not as a result of anything Snape did. 
Voldemort caused Harry some psychological damage. The 
Dursleys have too. But Snape? What symptoms of psychological 
damage do you see? 

Snape makes the Slytherins laugh at Harry but he also makes 
the  Gryffindors stick up for him.  Even when Harry feels the 
whole school is laughing at him, it's not. The only time the whole 
school was against him (except the Slytherins) was when he lost 
all those points for Gryffindor -- and Snape had nothing to do with 
that. 


Alla:
> Snape enjoys watching children being afraid of him. <

Hmmm. I think he enjoys watching Harry be afraid of him, and he 
thinks that fear will motivate Neville. He doesn't try to frighten
the others much.  What Harry doesn't get is that   Snape is 
enough of a legilimens to know when Harry is afraid even when 
he tries to hide it, so Harry gains absolutely nothing  by defying 
him. Nothing. He only aggravates Snape and gives Snape an 
excuse to punish him. And it really is time that Harry, who is 
scarcely a child any more, figured that out.

Alla:
> Right now, I think it is extremely unrealistic to expect Harry not 
 to be intimidated by Snape and really, his defiance led to the fact  
that his Boggart was not professor Snape.<

Pippin:
Do you think it's unrealistic for Harry not to be intimidated by 
Voldemort? 

Pippin