Harry's bias again WAS: Bullying WAS: Re: Prodigal Sons

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Betsy Hp:

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> No, Harry definitely has a bias.  I think to see Snape with any 
sort 
> of clarity you have to be aware of Harry's filter and try and work 
> around it.


Alla:

Hmmm,  there are some actions by Snape which luckily could not be 
described differently, IHarry's POV or not, IMO.

For example, the much debated first scene. Are you suggesting that 
Harry did something wrong here and did not tell us about it at all ?

I thought you argued that Snape thought that Harry was a Dark Lord 
in making  and that is why he decided to come down hard on him?

Doesn't it show Snape's bias about Harry?



> > >>Ceridwen:
> > I am no longer convinced that Snape is bullying anyone.  I am 
> > convinced that this is how Harry perceives it.  This is how 
we're 
> > shown it.  This is what we come away with. 

Alla:

But again, quite often we see Snape's ACTIONS, and quite often we 
hear words , which would be told the same way by anybody.

Granted, Snape's "bullying Neville" is subjective ( although I of 
course think Harry got 100% right :-)), but " I see no difference" 
to Hermione is completely objective, IMO and anybody would have told 
us that Snape said those words, although of course if Draco was 
describing the SCENE we would have got very different picture.

But I remain convinced that   there is an objective picture of 
bullying on Snape's behalf, Harry's bias or not.

And of course Harry IS biased against Snape, it is just I believe 
that Snape is the ONLY one to blame for such bias, since when Harry 
first arrived to  the lesson , he had no such bias against Snape.




 JMO of course,

Alla