Bullying/Snape and Neville and a bit of Harry too

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 140827

>> Betsy Hp:
> Well, sloppy in her usage, let's say. <g>  And really, I don't 
recall 
> any canon showing Snape bullying his peers while a student at 
> Hogwarts.  
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Alla:

Well, canon does show us  Snape inventing " means" erm... curses,    
which are quite useful for bullying, IMO.


Betsy:
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 Whenever he chastises Harry, I believe it's because he's 
> caught Harry in some form of wrong doing.


Alla:

Especially on their first lesson.



Betsy Hp: 
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 I think it's just as valid to describe Snape as 
> giving Neville the personal attention he needs to get through 
potions 
> that year.  It's nothing Neville *enjoyed* I'm sure (redolent with 
> sarcasm as I'm sure it was).  But it wasn't necessarily bullying 
in 
> the sense that it was an abuse of power.


Alla:

Oh, personall attention in a sense of turning Neville away from 
Potions forever? I think it was Amiable Dorsai who so eloquently 
said that because of Snape Neville has no hope of advancing in  the 
subject which is closely related to his best subject.

Ir is so convenient to assume that Neville is indeed hopeless in 
potions, isn't it? Then Snape sure can feel justified in doing what 
he does to poor boy and in the process shatterring his self-esteem 
to pieces.

I think that it is a reasonable assumption to make that since 
Potions and Herbology ARE related ( you know - Potions made of 
Plants for the  most part), Neville may have loved the Potions and 
would have done quite well in hem if only he had a different type of 
teacher teaching them.

I used to think that Snape's biggest sin in relation to Neville is 
the fact that he became the boy's biggest fear, but now I think that 
it is the fact that he may have stopped Neville's professional 
development in that field of study forever.


JMO of course,

Alla.