[HPforGrownups] Real child abuse.

[Jazmyn Concolor]

No: HPFGUIDX 145557



bawilson at citynet.net wrote:

>Lupinlore:
>"I have to confess I've never understood the appeal of Snape.  
>The man is a childish blowhard and an abuser of children."
>
>Lupinlore, please show me when Snape abused a child.  I will grant 
>you that he has been harsh, mean, and unfair, but I can't see where 
>he has been abusive.  As I've said before, I used to be a teacher 
>and I now work in the criminal justice system, and in both I have 
>seen REAL child abuse; Snape doesn't come anywhere close.  Even the 
>Dursleys' efforts in that way have been halfhearted compared to some 
>of the things I've seen. I won't go into details as I don't want to 
>make you ill. 
>
>BAW 
>
>
>  
>
I am glad someone besides me doesn't see Snape as a child abuser.  He is tough on the kids, yes, but no more tough then my old math teacher.  Its clear the kids are learning and that he commands their attention, but he doesn't do anything that can be called child abuse, even by muggle standards.  By wizard standards, well, we only know that children are not transformed as a punishment and most punishments seem to have to do with cleaning things. One wonders what the house elves think of that?   By wizard standards its apparently okay to abuse a house elf though.

Besides.. Wizard kids come from tougher stock then muggle kids.  By muggle standards the whole school is guilty of child endangerment just by the fact that children are exposed to potentially deadly creatures and plants.. and spells.  What happens if a kid's ear muffs fall off while harvesting mature mandrake?  What muggle parent would want their kid in the Tri Wizard Competition, fighting dragons??? Snape teaching methods seem tame next to all of that. While he threatens to use poison to get kids to learn how to brew antidotes, noone has actually died from poisoning in his class.  Not even Trevor.

Jazmyn