Snape, Apologies, and Redemption

[leslie41]

No: HPFGUIDX 152203

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lupinlore" <rdoliver30 at ...> 
wrote:
  
> the detestable thing would be NOT to deal with these issues.  Sorry, 
> but any work that approves of the abuse of children is, IMO, 
> reprehensible, and good for nothing but mulch.
> 
> 
> Lupinlore
>

But Rowling doesn't "approve" of Snape's behavior. When asked why 
Dumbledore allows Snape to teach, she basically said that "there are 
all sorts of lessons in life; horrible teachers like Snape are one of 
them!"  Snape's behavior towards children is at the very least mean-
spirited, but one of the lessons children learn from Rowling is that 
mean-spirited teachers and students and all sorts of other people 
exist in the world, and they don't always receive the punishment we 
think they should.  I have a daughter, and the last thing I want her 
to think is that people always get what they deserve.  

They don't, and thinking so, or thinking that literature (especially 
for children) should portray it as such is at best naive.   

Leslie41