Snape Reduced LONG(was: Re: Villain!Dumbledore...

[Katie]

No: HPFGUIDX 177879

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

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> Betsy Hp:
That an idiot like Voldemort could so easly throw both Snape and
Dumbledore for a loop, causing students to be injured or killed
under their watch, doesn't impress me much. I wasn't looking for
perfection. I was looking for effort.

Pippin:
What student was killed under Snape or Dumbledore's watch?
As far as I know, no student was ever killed while at Hogwarts except
Moaning Myrtle, and Dumbledore was not headmaster then.
Sure Voldemort was a maniac and made some strategic blunders.
That doesn't mean that it was easy to thwart him. Complaining
that some students suffered sounds to me like complaining that
Oskar Schindler didn't save enough Jews. Compared to who?


****Katie:
I agree that Voldemort turned out to be a less than impressive 
villain, but I have to point out that Cedric Diggory died under DD's 
watch, and many other students almost did. During CoS, Hermione, Colin 
Creevey, Penelope Clearwater...and during the Triwizard Tournament, 
with evil Moody prowling around right under DD's nose, anyone could 
have died. 

And with Snape, well, I think he absolutely did the best he could to 
keep the kids safe, under the circumstances.

I admit that Voldemort's intelligence seems less than impressive. And 
the fact that he could thwart DD multiple times doesn't say a lot 
about DD's intelligence. However, the story demands that Voldemort be 
a wicked intellect, or it wouldn't have taken so long to thwart him!

Katie