Sadistic!Snape?/Potterverse and reality

[colebiancardi]

No: HPFGUIDX 140340

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Sherry Gomes" <sherriola at e...>
wrote:
 
> 
> 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.   

ahh...here is where I disagree.  Snape is still DD's spy and
Dumbledore believes Voldemort will come back.  Since DD believes that,
I am sure that Snape also believes that LV is not dead.  And even
Snape did believe that LV was dead, there are other *big bads* out
there - there will always be someone down the line that will take on
that position.  As in RL, the WW has had their share of dark wizards.
 We also have all the Death Eaters who aren't in Azkaban - who are
nurturing little DE's to be(such as Draco) and truly nasty pieces of
work, like Umbridge.

War is something that no one can avoid.  Human civilizations thruout
the centuries have proven that.  I don't see why the WW is any different.


colebiancardi