Snape's class (was Re: HBP chapters 21-23 post DH look

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> Ceridwen:
> As a mom with teens past and present, I agree.  The thoughts are there, 
> but they are judiciously with-held.  It's a vicarious pleasure to see 
> it done in fiction.  Fiction is the place for things like this to play 
> out.
> 


MusicalBetsy here:
Yes, yes, yes - this is what makes me enjoy Fred and George and Ginny
(and Hermione at times - remember the bird incident?) so much.  While
others really disliked them because they saw them as real people from
real life who treated people meanly, I just enjoyed them as fictitious
characters who did and said things that I would never do, but in
context of a fictitious story were quite humorous.  Ginny tended to do
things that I might THINK about doing, but wouldn't - like the
Zacharias Smith incident during quidditch - but it's so fun to have
someone do it in a fictitious story.  To me, making the story too much
like real life is boring, and I don't really want to read that.  I
want to read about things that I would never get to do.  I supppose
that's why I like fantasy and science fiction books so much.  I know
others in this group don't agree, and that's certainly fine, but I
say, bring on the sarcasm and the pranks and the mean things that
other people deep down inside DO deserve - because if you don't do it
in a fictitious story, when will you do it?  Awww, I've got to have
some fun somewhere...might as well be in a safe environment such as a
work of fiction!!

MusicalBetsy, who knowingly smiled every time F&G and Ginny and Snape
were on the page...and who didn't analyze it too much....