Real child abuse

[horridporrid03]

No: HPFGUIDX 145749

> >>Alla:
> Huh? You are not SUPPOSED to take ANY of my opinions seriously, if 
> you don't want to, Betsy. Just as I don't have to take any of your 
> opinions seriously , if I don't want to. 
> NO, I am not saying that torturing the child is Okay, but I am 
> saying that making Draco bounce a few times is OK within the 
> narrative? Why? Because  of whom he is.
> <snip>

Betsy Hp:
I'm really uncomfortable with that sort of philosophy.  Rather than 
using rules fairly applied to everybody, some rules are made for one 
sort of person and other rules are made for another sort.  So, Draco 
deserves to be physically tortured because of who he is.  But 
Neville should never be challanged because of who he is.  Hagrid is 
allowed to physically endanger his students.  Snape is not allowed 
to emotionally endanger his.

The Death Eaters would agree with this sort of philosophy, of 
course.  They feel quite comfortable with deciding which people are 
worthy of the lighter set of rules and which people need to suffer 
the rough justice they so easily give out.  But if you're trying to 
show that those who think Snape is a child abuser are reasonable, 
Alla, taking a page out of the Death Eater philosophy book is a 
strange way of doing it.  At least IMO.

Yes, it's very tempting to assume that all those we love are right, 
and all those we dislike are wrong.  Draco follows that system 
throughout the series, though hopefully he's beginning to question 
it now.  Harry has followed that system as well, unfortunately.  
Though I think we do get glimpses of him realizing that not everyone 
he likes is good (Fake!Moody) and not everyone he dislikes is bad 
(Cedric Diggory).

Does JKR expect us to think as Draco has done?  Does she expect us 
to decide that whipping the twins is bad but whipping Draco is 
right?  Or is she, perhaps, trying to point out a better, though by 
no means easy, path?

Betsy Hp