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

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 150077

> > >>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

a_svirn:
Besides which she *did* end the scene at the cliff-hanger. Sexual 
harassment (other than humiliating exposure of genitalia) is not 
totally without the realm of possibility here. The latter may well 
follow the former. No is this the end of the Snape-Marauders feud. 
They could easily take up where they left off at some more 
convenient time. And Rowling certainly gave this abrupt ending 
intentionally. Even if most us, readers, were probably less 
impressionable than Harry, it is something we cannot completely 
ignore. I'd day it is the most shocking scene in the entire series 
so far.(Or, at least, the most revolting).