[HPforGrownups] Re: Sadistic!Snape? (was:Snape's canon opposite/ Proving ...

[sunnylove0 at aol.com]

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In a message dated 9/16/2005 7:10:59 PM Mountain Standard Time,  
bob.oliver at cox.net writes:

Betsy  Hp: 
> I think Snape chose Harry for *all* the questions with deliberate  
> reason.  He was telling the other students in Harry's class that  
> Snape was not bowled over by the "great Harry Potter" and neither  
> should they be.  He was also playing the part of a former Death  
> Eater.  But most importantly to him, I think, Snape was testing  
> Harry's character, and I think (unfortunately and incorrectly)  
> found reason to worry.  

Which is really beside the  point.  Snape's worries do not excuse his 
behavior toward Harry in  any way, shape, form, or fashion.  Neither 
do his mistaken beliefs  about education excuse his treatment of any 
of his students in any way,  shape, form, or fashion.




If Snape was a Real World teacher, he would be sacked and grief counselors  
brought in. 
 
In the Potterverse it's wah, bleeping, wah. 
 
We do not have dragons, dementors, psycho trees, skrewts, or a sport played  
50 feet above the ground, nor are we born hardy enough to survive it. Known  
sociopaths who have killed, maimed, and tortured aren't brought into our  
schools and given access to books full of new ways to  kill, maim, and torture. 
(Though I'll grant you that both societies react to  terrorism with panic and 
draconian measures.)  If Harry, Ron, Hermione, or  Neville talk back, cry or 
freeze up in front of Snape, it's a tongue lashing. If  they do it in front of one 
of the above mentioned Potterverse nasties, it's a  rather painful death. 
Weakness will not excuse you from dying like an  idiot.
 
I notice that both Harry and Neville kept their heads enough in battle to  
fight, and the students resisted against Umbridge.  It's a horrible  thing, but 
you can not coddle children who are going to be front line  soldiers in a 
terrible war. Dumbledore pulled this with Harry and the result was  the disaster 
in OOP.
 
Most of us will go to work, raise families, live normal lives,  and 
experience real evil on CNN.  Most of the children in the  Potterverse will be forced 
to choose sides for good and evil and lose family  members, friends and 
possibly their own lives.  Every one of them are in  danger from this war. If they 
can't deal with a probable sadist like Snape  (who'd make a good drill sergeant) 
what can't they deal with?
 
JMO, 
Amber


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