VA/H=Mx13+RP? (was: Was the eavesdropper unimportant to Harry?)

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No: HPFGUIDX 147169

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lupinlore" <rdoliver30 at y...> wrote:

> I can say so, and do.  Mainly based on the fact that Cedric is not 
> suffering at all.  Death is a one time phenomenon.  Therefore the fact 
> that Snape persistantly and systematically abuses Harry over years DOES 
> have great bearing.  Stinkbombs to a nuclear explosion?  Give me the 
> center of the explosion any day over being locked for years in a room 
> of stinkbombs.
> 
Wow, maybe you should talk to some parents who had their child
murdered and some parents who's child had a Snapelike teacher. Even
better, maybe you should talk to some children who had such a teacher
and ask whether they had rather be murdered as that would end years
and years of suffering. 

It is interesting to know that according to your logic Harry would
have been far better of being murdered by Quirrel in book 1, as that
would have prevented years and years of Snape. But maybe, maybe, Harry
- given the option, which he did because some really thougtless people
saved his life despite his terrible suffering - would have preferred
to live because he thought there is so much more to life than potions
classes a couple of hours a week. Having friewnds, winning Quidditch
games, learning magic, being in love. Funny to read all that should
pale before the immense horror Snape. Why oh why does Harry love
Hogwarts that much? That place where he is exposed to all these
horrors for two classes every week? 

Gerry