Snape as Neville's teacher and noble sadist

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 168429

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at ...> 
wrote:

> 
> Pippin:
> Oh, I see. You'd be okay with Snape if he had to hide what he is?

Well, sure.  Lots of people have to hide things about themselves to 
be part of "decent society."  In fact, I'd go so far as to say that 
everyone does.  That's part of what makes such a society decent -- 
that people simply do not feel it is acceptable to display the dark 
sides of their personalities.  If that dark side is dominant, such 
people are just plain out of luck, but that makes society no less 
decent, or in any way excuses such people from displaying 
their "true" selves.  


> 
>  Anyway, if Snape was made to feel once again that he is not 
welcome 
> in decent society, despite that his students have a better than 
average 
> pass rate and that he conducts himself as well on the whole as 
other 
> respected teachers do, it would be hard to blame him if he did go 
> back to the DE's. 

Well, once again, sure.  I'd say that any society that would find 
Snape acceptable and make him feel valued and welcome is most 
certainly not a decent society.  As C.S. Lewis once observed in "The 
Great Divorce," decent people, indeed good people, do not tolerate 
being surrounded by a midden simply because some twisted souls cannot 
bear the smell of roses.


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