Real child abuse/ Snape again

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> Alla:
> > 
> > Those kids are in boarding school, they don't see their parents 
for 
> > many months, in fact Harry and Neville have NO parents to see 
and 
> > teachers stay in loco parentis for all of them anyway.
> > 
> > I would argue that teachers have HUGE emotional power over those 
> > kids and gross misuse of such power is in fact emotional abuse.

 
> 
> Pippin:
> Binns has HUGE emotional power? Trelawney? Sinistra? I don't think
> so. 

Alla:

I definitely do, or more like they have the potentially huge 
emotional power over their students, but we don't see them either 
using or misusing it either because it is not important for the 
story or because they don't misuse it. IMO of course.


Pippin:
*Hogwarts* has huge emotional power over Harry. But Hogwarts
> overall was not an abusive situation for Harry or Neville, 
IMO,except when
> Umbridge was in charge. 

Alla:

Oh, but Hogwarts cannot exercises its power by itself, but only 
through teachers, I think.



Pippin:
> Harry and Neville have been so starved of approval that they can
> be manipulated by anyone who dangles it in front of them, whether
> it's done by withholding it  as Snape does, or giving it as Fake!
Moody 
> does. Harry knows that Snape tries to manipulate him  but he 
hasn't 
> realized yet that it's his own thirst for approval that makes it 
possible 
> for Snape to do it. 

Alla:

Since when students wanting and needing approval from their teacher 
is a bad thing? It is certainly not in my opinion. IMO teacher who 
does not want to give such approval is not a good one, NOT student 
who wants one. But I know that it is ALL Harry and Neville's fault 
and nothing is Snape's. :-) In fact, I think it is Harry's fault to 
be born, because he should have predicted that he would upset poor 
Snape, when he will come to Hogwarts. Just kidding of course.


I see nothing wrong in that Harry took a liking to Fake!Moody. I 
mean, of course it was bad within the story, BUT IMO there were no 
signs for Harry that man was exhibited abnormal behaviour. I think 
that he behaved as a good teacher. IMO of course. Except if he was 
showing Unforgivables in order to purposefully upset Neville of 
course, but personally I doubt it. For some strange reason I think 
Fake!Moody truly wanted them to learn about unforgivables.

I think you argued in the past that Snape does a good thing by 
Hermione, since she does not need teachers' approval anyway and does 
better in the challenging environment, but she GLOWES when Lupin 
praises her, therefore I don't think that Snape does Hermione any 
good either.


IMO of course,

Alla