Admonishing Snape

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 129493

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Irene <irene_mikhlin at b...> wrote:
> 
> 
> lupinlore wrote:
> 
> > The idea that she would be friends with someone
> > who abuses the members of her own house is utterly ludicrous.
> 
> Well, excuse me, but my reading of that scene (and the books as a 
whole 
> for that matter) is as valid is yours. If you can't accept that, 
then I 
> don't see any point in continuing this discussion.
> 
> Irene

Okay, I'm going well over the three a day limit, but to smooth ruffled 
feathers:

You're reading is perfectly valid.  So is mine.  They are also utterly 
and totally incompatible.  We each think the other is dead wrong and 
it would be silly to pretend otherwise.

To elaborate on the idea of McGonagall being friends with Snape, in my 
long considered opinion, if she is friends with him after he abuses 
the members of her own house her behavior is ludicrous and morally 
reprehensible.  Now, if you think she is friends with him, that 
opinion is perfectly valid.  It may well be that JKR will agree with 
you.  Nevertheless, I find the idea of someone being friends with a 
man who abuses the children to whom she is "in loco parentis" to be 
ludicrous and reprehensible.  Sorry, but I'm not going to suck my 
thumb on this one and pretend that I don't.

Lupinlore