[HPforGrownups] Snape's mom-domestic abuse

[Scarah]

No: HPFGUIDX 159925

Marion:
> I've always been rather annoyed at the ease that people put Toby Snape into the 'abusive husband' category and Eileen in the 'gormless victim' category.

Sarah:
You and me both.  Even if that is Tobias (I think it probably is),
he's *yelling.*  How many people have never raised their voice at, or
been spoken to in raised voices by another adult?  I think it's a huge
leap to immediately parlay this into a lifetime of abuse, yet everyone
seems to.

I know, I know, she was "cowering."  Is it fair and accurate to judge
his actions by her reactions?  I know more overreactive professional
victims than I know wife beaters, so why assume he's the crazy one?

Sarah