Why should Harry be expected to listen to anyone at Hogwarts?

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 122960


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> 
wrote:
> 
> 
> > Juli:
> > 
> > So, yes, Harry should treat Snape with respect, whether he 
> > feels that respect and whether or not Snape *deserves* that
> > respect. In doing so, Harry's not doing it for Snape but for 
> > himself. If you stoop to someone else's level, what are you
> > proving, after all, except that you have the capacity to be
> > an equally disrespectful person?
> > 
> > 
> > Alla:
> > 
> > You are letting that person know that his/her bad treatment will 
> not be tolerated by you.
> 
> Pippin:
> 
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> The respect is due to the position, not the individual. If Harry 
> believes that Snape is not qualified to teach, then he should 
> resign from the class. But Harry is not the Headmaster or the 
> Hogwarts Board of Governors, and he has no right to usurp their 
> authority by making it impossible for Snape to do his job.

Tonks now:

I agree with both Juli and Pippin. And I hope that Harry will not 
sink to a position equal with Snape. I think that Harry does a good 
job of not allowing Snape's behavior to effect Harry's self esteme. 
Again as I have said we live in a civil society. I expect that our 
hero, Harry, will rise above the poor example of others and be the 
better man. 

Tonks_op