Harry Draco symmetry (was:The DDM or ESE Snape debate Continues!!)

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No: HPFGUIDX 162328

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "horridporrid03" 
<horridporrid03 at ...> wrote:
>
> > >>Jenni from Alabama: 
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> Betsy Hp:
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> Also, regarding the ferret scene: When I was a very small child 
(five 
> or six) my family toured a place somewhere (Africa? South America? 
> England?) where there were still dents on the floor made by people 
> dropped on the floor as a form of torture.  I had nightmares for a 
> while and have never forgotten it (though obviously some details 
were 
> lost <g>).  So I have a different take on a scene that involves a 
> known sadist throwing a child repeatedly against a stone floor 
> because he's mad at the child's father.
> 
> That Harry and Ron weren't horrified by it is I think only 
explained 
> by the fact that it was a ferret squealing in pain rather than a 
real 
> boy.  Both boys were young and sheltered, so I don't think they 
> recognized how far Fake!Moody was going.

Quick_Silver:
I'd say though that said scene (the infamous ferret bounce) is an 
important
milestone (if you will) in the Harry Draco symmetry. In 
terms of Draco's physical suffering in that scene I'd hesitate to say 
that it surpasses what Harry has endured at a younger age (the 
Quirrell incident left Harry unconscious for 3 days?). But I'd also 
say that it surpass anything that Harry has endured from a teacher 
(as much as Harry hates Snape). So for Harry that scene kind of 
foreshadows what he'll endure from Umbridge and for Draco it 
foreshows the Bathroom incident where he'll endure something on 
Harry's level of pain and mortality (considering that by 4th year 
Harry has almost died twice). 

Quick_Silver