Real child abuse/ Snape again

[lagattalucianese]

No: HPFGUIDX 145770

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> Betsy Hp:
> Now how on earth am I supposed to take your opinions about child 
> abuse seriously when you say torturing a child is okay?  That *is* 
> what you're saying, yes?  Dropping a transfigured Draco onto a stone 
> floor from such a hight he actually bounces is fine and dandy.  
> Catching Harry in the middle of a wrong doing and calling him on it 
> is abuse.  I'm sorry, but your logic completely escapes me.
> 
> I'd also like to think that the real Moody would beg to differ with 
> your view that he'd eagerly torture a child.
> 
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La Gatta Lucianese:

I don't think we're supposed to see this as "rough justice" at all, at 
least not after we finish the book. While it is gratifying to some 
degree to see Draco get a comeuppance, I think JKR gives her readers 
credit for having enough brains to realize what is really going on, 
once they have finished the book: This isn't Alastor Moody, this is 
Barty Crouch Jr., who hates Death Eaters who walked away, taking 
vengeance on the son of one of the most conspicuous of the Death 
Eaters who walked away. Professor McGonagall is right to be shocked 
and call him on it--even if his victim is snotty little Draco.