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

[Irene Mikhlin]

No: HPFGUIDX 131663

> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lupinlore"
> <bob.oliver at c...> wrote:

> > No, we can't.  Those who endorse or defend Snape's
> methods (and I know
> > Tonks is not, but some do) ARE endorsing and
> defending the emotional
> > abuse of children.  Sorry if that stings, but I'm
> not going to quit
> > speaking the truth just because their are some who
> are uncomfortable
> > hearing it.

Look, you think that the modern american educational
system is the best educational system ever. That's
your opinion, and you are perfectly entitled to it.
However, it is not a fact. And it does not become a
fact even if you repeat it until the rest of the
listies are blue in the face.

The closest real life educational equivalent to
Hogwarts is an old-style English school. Now whether
we agree on its relative merits or not, the fact is:
within that system Snape's teaching style is nowhere
close to being out of bounds. Yes, he is not an
average teacher even within the relevant system of
coordinates, but he would not be taken out and shot.
Deal with it.

Irene


	
	
		
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