Snape's abuse (Re: Would an "O" for Harry vindicate Snape?)

[phoenixgod2000]

No: HPFGUIDX 131842

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "horridporrid03" 
<horridporrid03 at y...> wrote:
> > >>Sarah:
> > <snip>
> > I work for child protective service.  And Snape is 
abusive.       
> > Sorry.  He's emotionally abusive (yes, there is such a 
thing),    
> > neglectful, and physically abusive towards Harry in 
OotP.         
> > Umbridge is abusive in her punishments, but she is not nearly 
as  
> > bad as Snape is.  (At least in her duties as a teacher 
before     
> > she tried the imperious curse.)
> 
> Betsy Hp:
> Huh.  So you would call a person who has admitted to trying to 
kill 
> a child and torture a child, and whose punishments are not 
complete 
> until blood is drawn, *less* abusive than a man who will verbally 
> attack a child but has never put a child in harms way and has in 
> fact saved at least two children's lives.  It's an... 
*interesting* 
> tact to take, to say the least.

I am shuddering as I type this, but I agree with you Betsy.  I think 
Snape is a bad teacher, and a bad man, but he is an whole different 
animal from Umbridge.  Snape is bad, but Umbridge is EEEEVIL. She'd 
be as bad as Voldemort if she weren't so wildly incompetent.

phoenixgod2000