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

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 131569

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "phoenixgod2000" <jmrazo at h...>
wrote:

> Snape is a bad lesson to teach children because he is in such a 
> superior position to them they basically have no recourse to him. 
> They can't stand up to him, they can't confront him. He's their 
> teacher, he holds all the cards. It doesn't surprise me at all that 
> Neville is more scared of him than Bellatrix. He's more helpless in 
> front of Snape than he is in front of a death eater. Bella, Neville 
> can actually hex. Snape, he can only endure. 

Pippin:
::blinks::  I think you're exaggerating.

 Snape has been hexed three times by Harry and once each by Ron 
and Hermione. So far, none of them have got
so much as a nosebleed in return. Not even a detention.

What is your canon for saying that Neville has no recourse? . As
far as we know, Neville has never complained to any adult in 
authority, and neither  has Harry. Hagrid doesn't count, since at 
that point Hagrid was only the gamekeeper.  

JKR was asked what to do about real life bullies and her answer
was, tell someone, and keep telling someone until you get help.
So far, neither Harry nor Neville has followed her excellent 
advice, and I don't expect they will get any help until they do.

Pippin