Snape's Cruelty Has Purpose /Pansy Parkinson

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No: HPFGUIDX 150800

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Deb" <djklaugh at ...> wrote:
>
> Deb here:
> Snape as Harry, etal's teacher ... and IMO as DDM!Snape ... has 
> to teach them much much more than just potions. He knows that 
> Harry has been selected by LV to be the child in the prophecy 
> (per DD's explaination to Harry at the end of OOP). Of all the 
> members of OOP Snape knows the most about LV's character and way
> of doing things as he was when he became Vapomort - given that 
> Snape had been a DE. 
> Snape and DD know that in order for Harry to do what he needs to 
> do, in order for him to survive any and all confrontations with 
> LV and the DEs he has to not only master his magical skills but 
> also he has to develop emotionally and intellectually to the point 
> that he can withstand LVs verbal and emotional assaults as well as 
> his magical ones. Harry has had some experience dealing with 
> emotional abuse prior to coming to Hogwarts having lived with the 
> Dursleys. However that had not made him tough enough. 


If this turns out to be the case, I guess my response would be to 
paraphrase Sydney who was paraphrasing a very wise and insightful 
person in saying (not Sydney's opinion) that the child-abuse 
celebrating books would be worth nothing more than high-priced wood 
chipper fodder.  Sorry, but that's just the way, imo, it is.  JKR 
will have failed reprehensibly and revealed, imo, a deep set of moral 
flaws in so doing.

Then again, the world needs good wood-chipper fodder more than it 
needs books that celebrate the abuse of children, in any case.


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