[HPforGrownups] Re: Please explain. . .

[Irene Mikhlin]

No: HPFGUIDX 144173


--- eggplant107 <eggplant107 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> "Bruce Alan Wilson" <bawilson at c...> wrote:
> 
> > How Snape is a child abuser?
> 
> Well, he heaps pain and abuse on a child who has
> shown extraordinary
> courage, power, and moral fiber. 

That's a bit of a circular argument, you haven't shown
an example of the abuse.

And what's Harry's moral qualities have got to do with
it? Yes, Harry is a good person. Is a hypothetical
abuser stops to be an abuser if the victim is less
than perfect?

> And he had
> threatened to kill the
> beloved pet of another student.

No he did not. We've went through that episode many
times before. Trevor was in no more danger than when
Flitwick used him for demonstrating levitation.

> And he had so
> unfairly insulted
> another student that she was engulfed in tears and
> ended up in the
> hospital wing. 

Wow, that's a turn of phrase Rita Skeeter would be
proud of. :-) So Hermione ended in the hospital wing
to treat Snape-induced nervous breakdown then?

Yes, Snape unfairly and cruelly insulted her. If
that's abuse, then someone, arest McGonagall. She
unfairly and cruelly insulted Neville when Black got
his hands on the Gryffindor password.
 
> And although child abuse does not really describe
> it, the fact that he
> also murdered the kindest, most powerful, most
> benevolent, and
> brightest wizard in a thousand years does not add
> significantly to
> Snape's character reference. 

Objection, your honour. Circular argument, and
irrelevant.

Irene


		
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