[HPforGrownups] Re: Real child abuse/ Snape again

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 145685

--- festuco <vuurdame at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> But true abuse is much, much worse. Could Snape be able of 
> emotional abuse? Certainly. He knows how to wound and he has 
> demonstrated he can be cruel. Does he do it. No, he does not 
> enough for that. 


Exactly.  If we consider what Snape could do if he really wanted
to....

He could split up the trio and assign them different partners in
potions class.  Hermione/Millicent Bullstrode, Ron/Draco, and
Harry/Crabbe-Goyle would be a fun five years of pre-NEWT classes,
wouldn't you say?  And despite his order that Hermione not help
Neville, Snape doesn't move her away from Neville's side.  (In some
books it seems as if they're actually partners, right beside
Ron/Harry as partners; then sometimes it's like the Trio are all
together at one cauldron and Neville is on his own.  But I assume the
former is the usual situation.)

Or if he really wanted to be hateful, Snape could put Neville and
Draco together.  That would be wonderful for Neville's emotional
health, wouldn't it?  

And putting kids in assigned seats would not be seen as out of the
ordinary, rather as done by teacher preference.  He could even
preface it with a high-minded speech about how important it was for
the various Houses to mingle and learn to work together.  

The Trio feel quite free to have discussions about plot-issues in
potions class and don't seem to be cowering in fear that they'll be
caught.  On the occasions when Snape does come down on them, they're
always rather surprised.  

Since it seems that the child abuse issue is never going to go away
(despite my fervent Christmas wish), it almost seems like it should
be set up as a separate list so devotees can go at it with full force
(my latest desperate New Years wish).

Magda


		
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