Bullying WAS: Re: Prodigal Sons

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No: HPFGUIDX 140906

> Betsy Hp:
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> Actually, Houyhnhnm is the one who pointed out that the descriptors 
> change with regards to Snape once Harry made the "sir" crack.  I do 
> agree that there is a change.  I don't think it's necessarily for the 
> better, in that I still don't think Harry is seeing Snape clearly.  
> However there is a certain kind of evolving going on, and Harry is 
> starting to grow up.  (Finally developing a bit of sympathy for Draco 
> was a good sign, IMO.)  It will be fascinating to see how Snape looks 
> once book 7 is done.  (If his hair is described as "silky" in the 
> last chapter, I will die laughing. <g>)
> 



And I will vomit all over the book at such incredibly poor writing if 
such does indeed turn out to be the case.  It would be equivalent, IMO, 
to Harry waking up in the closet at Privet Drive, eleven years old 
again and finding it was all a dream.

Luckily, as JKR has said she regards Snape as "horrible" and "sadistic" 
and guilty of "abusing his power," I don't think we will see such a 
contrived and unbelievable reversal.  Now, we may well see more 
revelations, I will be shocked if we don't.  But Snape NOT a bully to 
Harry and the other kids? Snape NOT a reprehensible and twisted product 
of fascination with the Dark Arts? Snape NOT a horrible, sadistic, and 
poor teacher?  Snape NOT someone who faces very stiff punishment for 
his inexcusable actions throughout the entire series?  In short, Snape 
NOT what he has been portrayed as in every word and scene ever written 
about him?

Excuse me, but I think I'm going to die of laughter right now :).


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