Snape, Snape and more Snape!

[ibchawz]

No: HPFGUIDX 140529

> Elyse wrote:
<major snipping>
> And as a side thought, I think it was a sort of fitting punishment
> that James, who was a bully, died to save his son, and in the 
> process left him to be bullied and abused, not by Snape,
> but by the Dursleys for ten long years.
> 

ibchawz responds:

If I understand what you are saying here, you think it is fitting and 
proper that Harry should be bullied since his father was a bully.  I 
just can't agree with Harry paying for the "sins of the father".  
Allow me to relate this to a RL example:

My parents divorced when I was 13 because my father was unfaithful to 
my mother.  Following your line of thought, it would be perfectly 
acceptable for my wife to be unfaithful to me.  She could say that it 
was perfectly OK for her to do this since my father had done the same 
thing to my mother.  Sorry, I just can't agree with this.

ibchawz