Snape echoing the fountain or not? WASBroken potionvial and Harry expectations

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> Pippin:
> But he *does.* Or at least that's what I see him doing with the 
lecture
> about the golden fountain.  When he says we wizards have abused 
our 
> fellow creatures for too long, he's not just  talking about 
Voldemort. 
> After all, the biggest slaveholder in  Wizarding Britain is *not* 
> Voldemort. It's *Hogwarts*. 
> 
> Wizarding society is built and Hogwarts was founded on 
exclusionist 
> and elitist principles: how can it possibly be fair? Harry isn't 
wrong to 
> seek fairness, but  the reader, IMO, is  allowed to see  that the 
source
> of all the  petty  unfairness in Harry's life is not Severus 
Snape. 
> 
> Snape *was* unfair, but Snape was just echoing the fountain. He 
> expected his students to receive his bounty with absolute 
attention and 
> worshipful silence, and he was !@#$ irritated when he didn't get 
it. 

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Alla:

I am sooooo confused. In Russian we call it "dragging the point into 
the discussion by its ears". Translation is not exact, but hopefully 
clear enough.

Where do you see **any** indication that when Dumbledore talks about 
fountain he has Severus Snape in mind?

I am wondering what fountain has to do with Snape teaching tactics, 
if anything at all?

Dumbledore talks about slavery, where is any sign that he talks 
about anything else?


General unfairness of wizarding society is fine and dandy to get rid 
of, IMO but I think to attach the fountain here is make the picture 
unnecessary complicated, because it makes the job of getting rid of 
Snape unfairness much more complicated than it is.


Unless of course you are arguing that Snape is the slave owner and 
Harry and Neville can be seen as his slaves?

Is that the analogy you are seeing? If it is, I think it is 
stretching the point big time.

JMO,

Alla