[HPforGrownups] Re: Favorite Snape Scenes - He's such a lovely professor, no really.

[Shaun Hately]

No: HPFGUIDX 122558

On 20 Jan 2005 at 21:41, Charme wrote:

> Now I can tell you some of the parents I know, regardless of what their kid 
> did, would not condone a teacher treating a student in that manner. Neither 
> would the public or the school system.  It does make you wonder what Snape's 
> temper has caused him to do in the past.

I don't want to get into a huge debate about this because it's very 
hard to keep it calm and rational in my experience, but as a matter 
of simple fact and record, a great many parents and many school 
systems have, until quite recently, tolerated far more severe 
physical treatment of children than we see in the Harry Potter 
books.

Including many of the types of schools that Hogwarts seems to be 
most closely based on.

Certainly many parents, and many school systems would not condone 
treatment like that. But quite a number would and did.

Hogwarts is not a modern school with modern ideas. It's drawing on 
rather specific traditions.

Most modern schools wouldn't tolerate detentions that require an 
armed teacher as escort either.


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