On the perfection of moral virtues/Snape and Harry and some Ron as well

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No: HPFGUIDX 168941

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

> 
> In Book Seven Harry will be an adult and Dudley will be a child.
> Now why do you think JKR arranged things that way? I hope
> that Harry will prove too noble to  abuse his power over
> Dudley in the next book, but I wouldn't bet on it. 

Neither would I.  I'd bet even less on Ron, seeing as he's said he'll 
be at the Dursleys.  But that is how it should be.  Karma, or justice 
if you will, has to come around for Dudley, and if it's at the end of 
a wand, that's fitting.  I suspect the reason that Harry is an adult 
and Dudley a child is simply because JKR didn't want Harry at 
Hogwarts in his seventh year and set the age of majority in the WW at 
17.


> 

> 
> Pippin:
> What power do you think Snape has that the Slytherins do not?
> Harry insults Draco, Draco breaks his nose. Harry insults
> Snape, Harry gets detention. There's consequences either way.
> 

Hmmm.  How about the power of child abuse?  That requires an adult 
and a child (check) and unequal power distribution (check) and 
abusive behavior (check).  Okay, seems like at least one Slytherin in 
the snake hole is unique with regard to Harry!


> 
> Snape is very good at getting Harry to focus on his self-doubts
> and inadequacies. But Voldemort is even better. Since Harry
> will never be good enough at occlumency to tune those feelings
> out, he's just going to have to learn to love himself as he is.
> ::sigh:: 
> 

Which is, I think, absolutely no excuse whatsoever for anything Snape 
does.  Of course, you might say all this about Snape and James, or 
even Snape and Voldemort.  Snapey-poo does have severe inadequacy 
problems of his own, after all.


> 
> Pippin:
> But what if you saw the child growing  into a bully, even a 
murderer, 
> would you let that happen rather than discipline him? 


Snape thinks Harry is growing into a bully and a murderer?  Oh dear, 
I'd say Snapey-poo is an even bigger abusive idiot than I took him 
for, and that's saying a lot!  And once again, I'd say it's 
absolutely no excuse for his abuse, in any case.


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