Bullying WAS: Re: Prodigal Sons

[P J]

No: HPFGUIDX 140806

Magda says:
>Nonsense.  You and Alla think Snape was a bully for no other reason
>than that you dislike the character.

PJ replies:
Snape is a bully with at least *some* of the children at Hogwarts as an 
adult so I find it highly unlikely that this trait wasn't already a part of 
his personality as a child.

In the pensieve scene we see his Mother "cowering" in a corner while his 
Father yells.  People don't usually cower during a disagreement, they cower 
out of fear (the expectation?) of bodily harm.  Children do tend to learn 
what they live so perhaps Snape learned quickly who had "the power" in his 
family which, in this case was the bully.  He may not have liked his father 
but he appears to emulate him none the less...

PJ