Minerva NOT DD's Confidant (was Two scenes for most everyone)

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 144048

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "leslie41" <leslie41 at y...> 
wrote:

> 
> Scene Two is not faithful to either Snape OR Minerva.  It would 
mean 
> that we would have to all of a sudden acecpt that Minerva, deputy 
> headmistress of the school and DD's confidante, has actually 
> disapproved mightily of Snape's teaching methods all along.  
> Disapproved of them enough to toss him out of Hogwarts.


But Minerva ISN'T DD's confidant.  Neither is Snape.  JKR has flat 
said that DD HAS no confidant.  And Minerva herself, when Harry 
reveals what happened on the tower, immediately believed Harry and 
implied that she had entertained severe doubts about Snape for years 
and had possible said as much to DD.  Therefore the idea that she was 
in with DD, or knew what he was thinking about Snape, or approved 
necessarily, is to flatly contradict both canon and JKR herself.  
Also, the relationship she had with Snape, if we go by what she said 
at the end of HBP, was not warm, friendly, or approving.  Once again, 
JKR has flatly stated that Minerva was NOT DD's confidant, and 
therefore that simply because something was DD's policy does NOT mean 
that Minerva knew about it or would have agreed with it had she known.

But I am not arguing that she would do anything like in that scene, 
necessarily.  It was merely an example of something that might happen 
with Snape to satisfy nearly everyone -- and I do maintain that if 
some similar scene does not happen to punish Snape for his child 
abuse, JKR is a very poor writer who has no idea how to 
satisfactorily deal with important moral issues.

In any case, an interesting question is what will be Minerva's 
policies assuming she continues as Head?  How might they differ from 
Dumbledore's?  How might they be the same?  How might they surprise 
people?


Lupinlore