Slytherins: selfish, not evil + Ariana raped?

[Milz]

No: HPFGUIDX 173769

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bartl at ...> wrote:
>
> From: Erin Ridgeway <erinridgeway at ...>
> >On another note: did anyone else read the Muggle torture of 
> >Ariana as rape? Or do I just like my backstories as twisted 
> >as possible?
> 
> Bart:
> A better question: did anybody NOT read it that way? 
> 
> As adults (note the name of the group), we are much more 
knowledgeable about what sort of attack some adults are capable of on 
children. And we know, from news accounts and otherwise, how children 
react to certain kinds of attacks. 
> 

I read it that way. If she wasn't raped, then she was physically 
abused in some way by those boys. I've worked with child victims of 
sexual or physical abuse, so I've seen many Ariana's before.

Milz