Apologizing to Snape?

[houyhnhnm102]

No: HPFGUIDX 139240

Meri:

> I mean, he's pathetic in the sense that he 
> is a grown man who gets his jollies off torturing little children, 

houyhnhnm:

Torturing?  That's a bit excessive isn't it? I don't approve of the
way Snape plays favorites or the fact that he crosses the line and
gets personal with students, but I've had plenty of teachers like him.
They weren't all bad and I certainly wouldn't call them torturers.  I
learned more in the classes of the teachers I hated than I did in the
classess of "nice" (and frequently boring) teachers.

This whole issue has gotten completely away from the discussion of a
fictional work.  It's just a bunch of people grinding their personal
axes.