Snape and Umbridge and abuse again WAS: Re: Bad Writing? (was: JKR and the boys)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 162924


> Alla:

> 
> How about threatening to kill student's toad? How about assigning 
> the detention to that student to make him **cut toads* ( 
> paraphrase)?

Pippin:
A horned toad is neither a toad nor a frog. I'ts a lizard. 
I'm afraid it's not Snape who has the nasty imagination here. 

There's no doubt that Snape abuses his power and is a bully, 
but that is not quite the same thing as abusing students, 
which has to do with  repeated episodes of damaging
behavior, ala Umbridge. I cannot see that Neville, Harry or 
any other student was ever harmed in Snape's class.

As for Dumbledore, I reckon he might have stopped people
from abusing one another, only his time seems to have been
entirely taken up with trying to get them to stop murdering. 
I really can't argue with his priorities.

Pippin