Snape less comic?

[nrenka]

No: HPFGUIDX 150364

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at ...> 
wrote:

> Pippin:
> As individuals, no. In their public capacities, yes. It's perfectly
> okay with me if Harry doesn't want to see Snape socially, but if,
> for example, Harry and Snape both end up working for the Auror
> Office, then they will have to cooperate for the sake of duty.
> It would not be okay with me if Harry tried to get Snape sacked
> for being a horrible person -- that's for the Auror Office to 
> decide, not Harry.

I'm not completely in agreement with the idea that personal traits 
have absolutely nothing to do with duty and work.  For instance, 
let's assume that this Auror team requires a level of personal trust 
and cameraderie between the members, who are often together in high-
risk and high-pressure situations.  If the other members of the team 
think that one of them is a horrible person who they don't like 
personally, it could certainly impair their working situation.  I'm 
not in the military, I've never been in a situation like that, but I 
can certainly imagine a commander then stepping in--specifically due 
to the complaints of other workers--and sacking (or at least 
reassigning) the offending person because his presence was 
detrimental to the team.  Or what if Harry *is* the head of the Auror 
Office, and he's choosing his staff?

As it goes under law, Pippin has some right to say that there's a 
level of equal treatment mandated (although the WW doesn't seem to 
care much about modern ideas of human rights and equal protection) 
and some kinds of discrimination are illegal.  The social contract 
and society at large involve a lot of things which don't fall into 
categories governable by law.  You can't mandate personal reactions 
to other people, and in that field, when someone makes himself 
unpleasant in ways which people find offensive, they tend to avoid 
said person.  I could provide any number of RL analogues, but they'd 
probably tend to the inflammatory.  I'm sure we can all think of 
types of people we studiously avoid and want to have nothing to do 
with.  Sometimes that is the consequence of choosing and sticking to 
a manner of behavior.

-Nora has seen what tends to happen with certain arrangements of 
students and teachers and that operative principle