DD and Snape /Re: Regressed Harry

[wynnleaf]

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> > Alla:
> >  Neville seemed pretty distressed to me when he came back 
> > > with frog gut or as we now know *toad gut* under his fingernails.


wynnleaf
So what???  What does it matter what kind of frog or horned frog
(lizard) it was?  In middle school and high school classes all over
the US, kids often are required to dissect cats, regardless of the
fact that a large percentage of these kids will have or have had cats
as pets.  It's not some cruelty, you know.  It's just one of those
things many kids learn to do.  As a child, I enjoyed pet bunnies, but
still skinned a rabbit for dinner.  Guess what? No trauma whatsoever.
 And nobody thought my grandmother was being cruel teaching me to skin
the rabbit.

Who cares whether the frog was truly a horned frog or one that was the
kind of frog as Trevor?  Either way, it doesn't make Snape "cruel" to
have Neville gut the frogs, horned or otherwise.

Just how weak-minded is Trevor supposed to be anyway?  I like Neville
fairly well, but why he brings his frog to class is a mystery to me. 
Nobody else brings their pets, and Trevor known for escaping.  You'd
think Neville would take better care.  I would expect Snape to dislike
Neville bringing him along.

Still, it really doesn't matter.  Gutting the frogs isn't cruel.  It's
just a thing you do in potions -- like dissecting cats in biology.

wynnleaf