Justice to Snape WAS: Re: Werewolves? There Wolves!

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 170761

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" 
<dumbledore11214 at ...> wrote:
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> Lupinlore:
> None of which excuses his actions or reprehensible abusive behavior
> in any way, form, or fashion, I'd say. And not of which excuses him
> from punishment.
> 
> Alla:
> 
> Blinks. I am with you on this topic, remember? You do not have to 
> convince me that Snape is a child abuser, I see him as such indeed.


Chuckle.  Just a statement of general principle to forestall the 
inevitable (from certain people) "if he is such a deliciously complex 
character we can't apply simplistic moral analysis" arguments.  
Obviously, I don't think such statements are true (Snape is complex, 
but the moral issues involved with his abuse of Harry and Neville 
are, I think, brutally clear and undeniable), but there you have it.

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> Alla:
> 
> That's great. Except I did not say it, so you are convincing 
somebody 
> else. I think Toonmili, not 100% sure. I agree with you.

Whoopsey.  Must have mislabled that one.  Sorry about that.


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> > Mike:
> > No, no, justice for me and Alla and Sherry and all the other 
> faithful 
> > Snape-hating readers. When Snape got the DADA job we had such 
high 
> > hopes, for what lay ahead for "Snivellus". 

> 
> Alla:
> 
> Yep - that one.
> 

Hmmmm.   The saga of "Snivellus" and his relationship to the DADA 
curse is almost certainly not over -- if there is, indeed, a DADA 
curse at all.  I personally think it would be rather amusing -- 
unlikely, but amusing -- if the subject were to come up and Voldy 
were to blink his reptilian eyelids and say "What curse?  Do you 
honestly think that in the midst of taking over the world I had time 
to craft a jinx for a teaching job?  I hated Dumbledore and wanted 
him dead, but the man's hiring problems were entirely his own 
trouble!"


Lupinlore, who thinks his yard will probably do very well after being 
mulched around the edge of the porch