Does James' bullying arises to the level of sexual harassment/

[horridporrid03]

No: HPFGUIDX 150048

> >>Pippin:
> > Lupin does not say that half the school was threatening to take
> > anyone's pants off. He does say he thought James and Sirius
> > went too far. Apparently he wasn't talking about levicorpus,
> > since as you say half the school was using it and Lupin doesn't
> > take it too seriously when Harry asks him about it later.

> >>Alla:
> Wait, I am confused now. You were talking about Levicorpus though, 
> no? You see James using Levicorpus as sexually harassing Snape or 
> did I misunderstand you completely? When half of the school used 
> Levicorpus then  yes, I think it is highly probable that many      
> people had their pants taking off.

Betsy Hp:
I'm jumping in here, but I think Pippin was talking about James 
exposing Snape's underwear for everyone to see, and then threatening 
to take them off and therefore expose Snape's genitals for everyone 
to see.

I don't doubt students were jerking each other upside down all over 
Hogwarts.  It's the length of time Snape was held upside down, and 
the threat of nudity that raised this attack to a rather disturbing 
level.  (Well, that and James choking Snape so badly before the real 
fun began.)

> >>Alla:
> Do you see this as sexual harassment or do you see something      
> different in pensieve scene as metaphor for sexual harassment?

Betsy Hp:
Yeah, I'm going to say exposing Snape's genitals against his will, 
and for an unspecified length of time is sexual harassment.  There's 
a reason Harry thought his father capable of rape after witnessing 
this scene.  (Though, I think Harry leapt to the very worst of 
conclusions.)

Betsy Hp