Real child abuse/ Snape again

[richter_kuymal]

No: HPFGUIDX 145686

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> 
wrote:... We do see other teachers abuse their power.
> I think telling a student he is fated to die is an abuse of power.
> So is  not teaching him anything he couldn't learn from the
> lecture notes (a step could be eliminated there ;-)) But
> Harry doesn't hate Trelawney or Binns. He hates Snape, because
> Snape cheats him of approval. It's not wrong for Harry to want
> it, any more than it's wrong for Dudley to want sweets. But
> for Dudley to want them so much he takes candy from strangers
> is dangerous. Likewise, it's dangerous for Harry to want
> approval so much that he is provoked to rage whenever Snape
> withholds it.
> 
> Snape isn't likely to hand out sweets, and he isn't ever likely
> to approve of Harry, but Harry is always lying or justifying 
himself
> and then getting furious when Snape sees through the lies and 
> refuses to listen to the justifications. 

== but then how does one justify Snape in the first class 
encounter? "our new CELEBRITY..Tell me Potter...."  Now Snape is 
perfectly aware that Harry does NOT have any wizard education.  Of 
all the students in the class, only Hermione seems to know the 
answer.  Deliberately choosing to highlight Harry in this way is at 
the least, cruel.  Nor is this all. Snape accuses Harry of not 
telling Neville about when to put in quills when one of Neville's 
potions explodes.  This isn't about "approval" or any lying on 
Harry's part.  This is about a teacher deliberately choosing to 
single out a student for harassment.  In the Quiddich match, Snape 
again abuses his authority -- if he can't referee fairly, he should 
not referee.  Approval in the form of grades is something Snape is 
supposed to provide when a student does well, yet we see him 
providing zeros in cases where it is not deserved. Harassing Harry, 
Neville and playing favorites with those in his own house certainly 
strike me as abuse of power, if nothing else.
--- PAR