Two scenes for most everyone (was Re: Retribution for Snape the Teacher)

[lagattalucianese]

No: HPFGUIDX 144150

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> Blechhh....again.  Ron is perfect for her, IMHO.  
> 
Well, I guess for the sort of people who think that sort of thing, 
that's the sort of thing they think. To me, Ron is the ultimate 
Blechhh Factor. We'll just have to agree to disagree.
> 
> Uhmmmm...Did Snape just wake up & see Hermione when she turned 17 
> years old?  If not, then he was eyeing her when she was younger.  
> Quite frankly, 20 years is a huge difference - not saying it won't 
> work, but if I taught someone since they were 11 years old & then 
> *all of sudden*, when they turned of age, I viewed them as a sexual 
> being, I couldn't do it...Perhaps in 10 years later, when I hadn't 
> seen them for a while, but not right away.  That would mean I was a 
> sexual predator, sorry.  The light doesn't turn on right away like 
> that, especially if you have seen them for years prior as a little 
> kid.
> 
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>
> colebiancardi
> (who is older & much more wiser when it comes to May-December 
> relationships)
> 
What has the world turned into while I was off writing computer 
manuals and not paying attention? If we called out the Romance Police 
every time an older male fictional construct and a younger female 
fictional construct decided they liked one another and wanted to hold 
hands and gaze into each other's eyes, Jane Austen, for one, wouldn't 
fare very well. How much older than Emma is Mr. Knightly? And he's 
been "eyeing her" for a fair number of years before she gets it 
through her dizzy little head that she's in love with him and just 
maybe has done something very, very silly. Does that make him a 
sexual predator? Because he's willing to keep his peace and let her 
come around to the idea on her own? What about Marianne Dashwood and 
Colonel Brandon? Would you rather she married Willoughby (as whom 
IMHO Ron has roughly about as much gumption)? For that matter, how 
much older than Elizabeth is Mr. Darcy?

We're talking about two people who've been annoying and otherwise 
interacting with each other for six or seven years, and have gotten 
to know one another pretty well. Are we going to inform them that 
because there's a twenty-year age difference in their ages, they have 
to wait another ten or twenty years to find out if they're really, 
really, really right for one another? Good gad, woman, there's a 
*war* on. They may not be alive in twenty years. They may not be 
alive in *one* year. My take is that if they're both free and over 
seventeen, and they've decided they want one another (always 
assuming, of course, that they do want one another), it's nobody's 
business but theirs. And the fact that you think it's Blechhh has 
absolutely nothing to do with anything. If they aren't right for one 
another, they'll find out soon enough, but again, it's their issue to 
sort out. And J.K. Rowling's, of course. Nobody else's.

--La Gatta