Christmas present pattern...

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 131811

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Magda Grantwich 
<mgrantwich at y...> wrote:
> --- lupinlore <bob.oliver at c...> wrote:
> 
> > Hermione is not some martyr to a pair of lazy boys.  She is a 
> > tightly integrated part of the trio who has chosen her own role and
> > relishes it.  Sometimes she relishes it far too much, as in many 
> > places in OOTP where she badly needs a smack in the mouth.  
> 
> 
> Doesn't that sound suspiciously like....child abuse?
> 
> Magda 
> 

I suppose that's supposed to be a brilliant sarcastic comeback.  
Sorry, doesn't work.  Try harder.

Nope, not child abuse when between child and child.  Now, in the case 
of Snape, he commits child abuse every time he opens his mouth.

Lupinlore