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

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No: HPFGUIDX 131531

Amanda:
> And I think children should be exposed to someone like Snape. The 
sooner
> they learn that life isn't fair; that some people are mean for no 
reason;
> that sometimes the mean ones are on your side even if they're not 
nice; and
> that the nice people aren't always your friends--the better. It's 
called
> reality. Most school systems and theories seem to set out to protect
> children from reality, rather than give them a chance to learn to 
deal with
> it.
> 

Alla:

I can only speak for myself, but I most certainly will reject this 
way of introducing my child to the reality of life, if I can help it.

I think my child will learn just fine that life is not always fair 
without being exposed to a teacher, who will threaten him to poison 
his pet, who if my child is injured will mock his injury instead of 
sending him to the doctor, who will become my child biggest fear.

On top of all that, said teacher will  decide to persecute  my child, 
if  he did not like me while we were at school.

After all, I was blessed  (IMO) with not having Snape like teachers 
when I was a child and even as a teen and  learned just fine about 
unfairness of life.

So, I think I will find other ways to explain to my child ther 
reality of life.



Irene:
> Can anyone honestly say that any emotional "abuse"
> that Snape might have inflicted is worse (or even
> equal) than the detention in the Forbidden Forest for
> 11-year olds? McGonagall has assigned it, in case
> anyone has forgotten.


Alla:

Yep, I absolutely can. I never had any doubt that they were watched 
VERY carefully on that detention.

Harry got away, but  that was for plot purposes, IMO.


Alla wrote earlier:
> "Are we supposed to think that Slytherin house is not all Evil 
simply
>  because there is a possibility that we have not met some of its 
> members yet?"
> 
> Del replies:
> I can't believe that I'm reading something as fundamentally 
prejudiced
> as THAT, especially coming from someone who so adamantly claims to
> be against prejudice...


Alla:

Erm.. Welcome back, Del. I would invite you to reread   some of my 
latest posts, where I said  that I am very open to the idea of Good 
Slytherin, but I am just as open to the idea that Slytherins will 
remain evil.



Del: 
<SNIP>
> "They are Slytherins, so they are evil." Disgusting, prejudiced,
> unfounded, and unworthy of the wonderfully intricate, subtle, and
> complicated world that the Potterverse is increasingly showing 
itself
> to be.

Alla:

I don't subscribe to the idea that "only the name characters" can 
prove the non-evilness of the Slytherins. 

 
> Del, irate

Alla:

Sorry, if my post made you feel that way, but not sorry for the post 
itself.


Just my opinion,
Alla.