[HPforGrownups] Character "rescues" (was Re: What cultural standards ...)

[Jazmyn Concolor]

No: HPFGUIDX 144720



lupinlore wrote:

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>That may very well be true, but what JKR intends very often isn't 
>what JKR gets.  We are back to the Problem of Three, as I mentioned 
>in another thread.  Snape, in my opinion and that of others, clearly 
>IS a child abuser, over and out.  And making said child abuser a hero 
>would be so abominable that the books would be useful for nothing but 
>rather expensive compost.  Just as Dumbledore, in not intervening at 
>the Dursleys, clearly WAS an accomplice to child abuse, at least 
>before HBP and, possibly, if you don't buy into the "rescue" JKR did 
>with him in Chapter Three, after.
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What Snape does is not considered child abuse in the UK.  Only by a 
stretch of the imagination is it child abuse in the ultra liberal state 
of California and barely or not at all in most other states....  And by 
Wizard World standards, Snape is likely not even close to being anything 
more then grouchy.  I mean really, he doesn't transform students into 
ferrets and bounce them around, he doesn't even hex students at all and 
the students put hexes on each other that are bordering on life 
threatening.   Snape also doesn't have students tag along on extremely 
dangerous missions involving feeding the headmaster poison or require 
him to fight dragons, merpeople. etc.  He doesn't have the kids attempt 
to deal with dangerous creatures in class like Hagrid does.

Clearly the Wizard World does not define abuse anywhere near what 
muggles do.. and certainly nothing like the ultra-liberals in California 
would.  If anything, Snape is actually pretty nice to the kids as 
compared to how the kids often treat each other.  A little snide 
namecalling sure beats being bitten by dragons, potentially being killed 
by a loose set of earmuffs during repotting Mandrakes or any number of 
other hazards in the Wizard World.

Jazmyn