The DDM or ESE Snape debate Continues!!(was:Re: A couple of little theories!)

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "horridporrid03" 
<horridporrid03 at ...> wrote:

> 
> Betsy Hp:
> And yet he just can't quite seem to keep himself from constantly 
> saving Harry's life.  ::sighs a bit over how gosh darn heroic Snape 
> is::

True, Snape has saved Harry's life.  But that, I think, has 
absolutely, positively nothing to do with anything as far as Snape's 
moral status goes.  He has abused Harry from day one.  If JKR does 
not deal with that, and with DD's reprehensible policy of allowing 
the abuse to continue, then she has failed in a particularly 
contemptible way.


> 
> Betsy Hp:
> Kind of like how the Trio condone cruelty to "others" especially if 
> it's done to Draco (or any Slytherin, really)?


Not cruelty, justice.  Draco's suffering is richly deserved, as are 
those of the other Slytherins.  Harry's most definitely is NOT.  And 
therein lies the total difference in the moral status, and the total 
difference in what Snape and Harry have coming to them.


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