Toads and Snape WAS : DD and Snape /Re: Regressed Harry

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 163185

> > > 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. <SNIP> 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.
<SNIP> Gutting the frogs isn't cruel. It's
> just a thing you do in potions -- like dissecting cats in biology.


Alla:

Yeah, if it was class assignment , which all kids would have
required to master, I may have seen where you are coming from. The
fact that Snape **chose** this particular detention for Neville, the
toad owner, whose toad he already threatened to poison in the past,
makes me think otherwise. It was Snape's one on one activity with 
Neville, activity of Snape's choice. We do not see any of the kids 
gutting frogs as far as I remember, no?

Who knows maybe indeed in later years they are required to learn how 
to do it ** in class**, but Neville doing it in GoF, just because it 
is a learning activity? I really don't see it.

It makes me think that this **one** mention of Neville's detention
with Snape in GoF was mentioned specifically for that purpose - to
show Snape's sadistic nature.

This is of course,

JMO

Alla