Snape vs Fake!Moody (was:Bullying WAS: Re: Prodigal Sons)

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No: HPFGUIDX 141060

> >>Vmonte:
> <snip>
> I'm rereading GoF right now and it's apparent that Crouch Jr. is the
> only person in the HP series that realizes what Snape is. Crouch Jr.
> knows that Snape is OFH. His interactions with Snape make that very 
> apparent to me. Read the scene on the staircase again with
> this in mind. Barty Jr. is threatening Snape on the stairs. He 
> secretly knows that Snape is not loyal to any side, and he lets     
> Snape know it. I love how Snape backs down and goes to his room    
> with his tail between his legs...HAHA
> (BTW the attitude Crouch Jr. has towards Snape and Draco makes it
> very apparent to me that he sees them as two peas in a pod.)

Betsy Hp:
It's precisely this sort of...hmm, I think hypocrisy might be too 
strong a word, but there's definitely a disconnect here, that I just 
cannot wrap my mind around.  You seem to be cheering Fake!Moody on.  
And yet, you also say you dislike Snape because you find his behavior 
sadistic.

So, it's okay to repeatedly drop a child onto a stone floor from such 
a height his body bounces off the ground, but it's sadistic to ask a 
child a question for which he doesn't have the answer.  Is it just 
because the child being tortured is one you dislike?

Snape was definitely being unkind when he treatened to feed Neville's 
potion to his toad, but Neville (and his toad) left that potions 
class with a sound mind.  There was no real evidence of sadism there, 
IMO.  Fake!Moody, however, treated Neville to a display of the very 
curse he (Fake!Moody) had used to drive Neville's parents insane.  
Neville walked out of that classroom in a state of complete shock.  
Now that *does* smack of sadism to me.

Then, of course, there's Harry.  During that scene that left you so 
thrilled, Vmonte, Snape was worried about items stolen from his 
storage room.  Items Fake!Moody stole to maintain his illusion so he 
could send Harry to his death.  Aren't you cheering for the wrong man 
here?  If Snape *had* discovered Fake!Moody's theft, the jig would 
have been up, Cedric wouldn't have died, and Harry wouldn't have gone 
through the hell that was the end of GoF for him.

Seems to me there was one clear villain and sadist on that 
staircase.  It's strange that you've chosen that particular man to 
cheer for.

Betsy Hp