Snape's mom-domestic abuse

[Tesha]

No: HPFGUIDX 159910

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pcotu" <pcotu at ...> wrote:
>
> Prechi:

> I have worked in a women's shelter.  I am not new to the issue of
> domestic abuse.  The thing is that women always try to escape--their
> attempts may be too feeble and they may get squashed in the backlash
> to any attempt to escape the abus.  
> 
> *BUT*  if the woman is a witch, all she has to do is cast a spell.
> So.....come on!  a witch could not get trapped in domestic abuse with
> a muggle for years.  Gimme a break.  I thought this was a major fumble
> for JK.
> 
Tesha:
Perhaps all the women who come to your shelter attempt to escape - but
all abused women do not make it to the shelter. Here in NH last year,
a very old woman was finally saved from a lifetime of abuse. I believe
a neighbor turned her husband in - she went to the hospital again,
this time to finally escape.

Its not that she didn't have the physical strength, she couldn't stand
up to the mental abuse that went with it.  Nasty stuff - abuse. I
think JKR is right on the button, she covers all kinds of abuse,
doesn't she?