I see no difference/Re: witches of the world (was: Lavender vs Hermione)

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 160929

> wynnleaf
> I'm curious as to *why* people think this was such an insulting
> comment.  In other words, why was Hermione so hurt by it?  
> 
> Consider this.  If Hermione's hand had been grossly enlarged, and
> Snape had looked at it and said, "I see no difference," where would 
be
> the insult?  If he had meant by the comment, "that hand is no
> different from the way it was," then his comment could only be
> construed as ridiculously dense.  But not an insult, because it's 
too
> obviously incorrect (*if* Snape meant that the hand was no different
> from the way it had been before).
> <SNIP>

Alla:

Erm.... YES. It would be an insult, Snape commenting on **any** part 
of Hermione or any student's body would be an insult, IMO. I am not 
sure why it would not be.

Of course the fact that Hermione is sensitive about her teeth adds 
fuel to it and I agree with Magpie that Snape must have know about 
it, but sure this one is an insult too, IMO.



Phoenixgod:
< HUGE SNIP>
> The difference is that they are on different sides of the war and 
> Molly is on the right one.  Bad people have people in their lives 
> who love them.  Bad people have mothers and fathers, and sons and 
> daughters who care about them and who they in turn care about.  
that 
> doesn't make them any less bad people. Narcissa, Lucius, and Draco 
> are bad people and therefor I have no sympathy for them.

Alla:

Golden words, Phoenixgod, golden words. I do not buy the moral 
relativism argument, which IMO Betsy makes. It does matter to me what 
are the views of the characters to consider them more sympathetic or 
not.

And Molly is on the side of the white hats as far as I am concerned, 
that absolutely makes her suferings much more sympathetic to me and 
Narcissa being concerned for her son and husband does not make any 
less the sympathiser of terrorists and murderers to me.

IMO of course.

Alla