Sadistic!Snape?/Potterverse and reality

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Amber: 
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
<snip>
> 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?



Alla:

I guess it all depends on how you treat "Potterverse". I touched on 
it earlier, but cannot find my old post. If you treat it as 
completely different world, unrelated to ours, I can see your 
argument.
I treat Potterverse as reflection of RL ( sometimes ugly, sometimes 
satirical, but still connected to our world). Now, of 
course "Potterverse" has magic, but I consider magic to be just a 
external element to be added  to make the world more interesting, 
that is all.

JKR, IMO, did not write about  the aliens race, the fact 
that "Potterverse"  "exists" in parallel to RL, makes me think that 
she wanted us to think that she drew richly on parallels from our 
world.

The witches and wizards  are still first and foremost people  and 
only then magic users, IMO( yes they are stronger physically,but who 
mostly have the same emotional reaction to pain, happiness, grief 
and sorrow as we do, therefore I disagree that students in 
Potterverse needed to be treated differently only because they are 
at war.

Unfortunately quite a few countries are at war in our world, does it 
mean that children in those countries should be treated  in schools 
as future soldiers only and their childhood should be taken away?

Same thing in Potterverse - I don't see why the fact they are at war 
with Voldie should make  them endure Snape ( I mean I understand it 
for the sake of the story, but from within the story, I don't)

JMO,

Alla.