Snape Wars vs Ship Wars was re: Cultural standards for Snape abusiveness/

[pippin_999]

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> > Pippin:
> > DDM!Snape, I mean.
> 
> Alla:
> 
> Oh, I guess our positions are even farther from each other than I 
> thought yesterday. So, Snape has nothing to be punished for, right? 
> We are approaching agree to disagree moment, but I do want to respond 
> to some points of yours first. But first of all, you are not arguing 
> that it is an undisputable fact that Snape is DD!M, right?

Pippin:
Undisputable? LOL! But if you have to argue that JKR has lost control
of the story arc in order to refute it, then the case for DDM is pretty
strong, IMO. We are not talking about fiddly little details like the
length of Charlie Weasley's winning streak. This stuff is major --
never mind what JKR said before, folks, it's okay to judge people by
type, the person you suspect most is guilty, guilty, guilty, and only
a fool laughs at fear.

Of course there are people who think she did lose control with the
shipping. Come to think of it, the arguments against R/H and H/G
have an eerie similarity to the arguments against DDM Snape.
There are many people who could never be reconciled to Ron's
behavior in GoF. They thought he was abusive to Harry and Hermione,
revealed himself as incurably prejudiced, and they did not think his
occasional stabs at nobility revealed anything about his true character.
He might redeem himself at the end, but he was sure to go bad first.

Many people also argued that Harry could not have misperceived
Ginny's character so thoroughly, and that in any case there wasn't
time for her to develop into anything very different from what
she appeared to be already.

It might be interesting to see whether people who think the 
ships were clumsily handled are also the people who are sure that
Snape betrayed Dumbledore.

Pippin