Snape's parents

[Morgan Adams]

No: HPFGUIDX 135050

Dave said:
 So why in Snape's memory
> (_OOP_, Am. Ed., top of P. 592) is she cowering while her Muggle
> husband shouts at her (as opposed to turning the domineering git 
into a yak)?

  

Morgan here: 
I think you're underestimating the emotional power of being abused (verbally or otherwise). If these are Snape's parents, his mother is abused by his father. This kind of constant abuse might have diminished her powers. Muggle women are abused daily who are capable, maybe not of turning their partners into yaks, but of fighting back in some way - and choose not to because of the emotional issues involved.

--Morgan

		
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