Snape being punished by Fake!Moody . WAS: Bullying

[unlikelyauthor]

No: HPFGUIDX 141106

unlikelyauthor:
This is my first post on this site so fingers crossed that I don't 
foul up too badly. (Elsewhere I perpetrate fanfic under the 
name 'unlikely2').

 
Alla:
> But as I said upthread - I will take what I can get. Whoever makes 
> Snape suffer even for a short while , I am perfectly fine with it. 
> (I don't have to say there that I don't advocate an eye for an eye 
> in RL, etc. You know that, right? :-) But this is a beauty of 
> fiction. I can imagine that bad guy ( IMO of course) will get his 
> dues in most unpleasant way, because nobody will get hurt :-))
> 
> I think I would even be happy if Voldemort makes Snape to suffer 
> in book 7 IF that would not be some kind of gruesome, violent 
> punishment ( cruciatus, death, etc.), but some painful blow to 
> Snape's pride. AND I still want Voldemort to die most slow and 
> painful death. :-)


unlikelyauthor:
Ok, I get the smiley, but I am someone who tends to regard literature in the way of though experiments for what is and is not acceptable behaviour. While you say nobody will get hurt, I'm not so sure. While literature and real life are not the same, there is surely some element of crossover. I will accept that fantasy violence can be very funny, butI've to confess that I find the Weasley twins' behaviour (for example) monstrous. 

I'm hard put to explain where the 'balk factor' lies but perhaps it's the more that we are invited to regard characters as 'real', the less acceptable it is to 'want' to hurt them. Or is that catharsis? 

Perhaps I should get back to attempting recalibration of the degree 
of slippage on the reality interface?

unlikelyauthor (who thinks there must have been a better way than 
shoving the old witch into the oven being one herself).