[HPforGrownups] Re: Sadistic!Snape?/Potterverse and reality

[Sherry Gomes]

No: HPFGUIDX 140331

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.



Sherry adds:

Let's not forget either, that when Harry walks in the door at Hogwarts, from
the very first day till the end of GOF his *fourth* year, the wizarding
world was *not* at war.  Voldemort was dead, so everyone believed.  some,
such as Dumbledore, may have had doubts as to how long that would last, but
there was no war. So, Snape and as an extension the entire WW had no reason
to bully their children or toughen them up or in any other way prepare them
for war.  I don't understand the whole mindset that says a teacher can be as
utterly rotten and cruel as Snape is to his students, in the name of
toughening them up or preparing the for a war that did not even exist.  It
is not a teacher's job to "toughen up" his students.  It is his job to
teach.  Let a physical education teacher or coach make them physically
tough, but leave their emotional stability alone.

sherry