Snape and Harry again.

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 113226

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> 
wrote:
> Having read Nora's 113106, I agree with it all.

Alla:

Then, I don't really know what we were arguing about. :o)

It seemed to me that you were arguing that what Snape does to Harry 
is just that ... No big deal. And Harry was supposed to shrug it off 
and to submit to Snape's treatment of him to give him more enjoyment 
than he already has.


I was arguing that sadism is a very big deal, that's all.


Pippin:

But Snape and Kreacher are just racist, 
> dark arts loving toerags, so why should we care   about their 
> feelings?


Alla:

Could you point out to me where I EVER said that?

As to Pensieve scene, I stated many times how I feel about it.

Kreacher, I believe, is a very different story. I do NOT believe that 
Sirius treated Kreacher any worse than any other elf-owner treats 
them. In general, it is very wrong. But I don't believe that Sirius 
deserves to be singled out from the others.
I believe that hose elves should be and will be set free, but I fail 
to see how Sirius behaviour was the worst. Lucius to Dobby? yes. 
Sirius to Kreacher? I am not sure.

Right now, though, I will definitely say : Die, Kreacher. Die.



It is your right to feel what you are feeling about James. I am just 
having trouble figuring out how you consider what James did to Snape 
such a big deal (and I agree with you, it was), but what Snape does 
to those who cannot fight him back, not a big deal.