[HPforGrownups] First lesson WAS: Re: Marietta, was Slytherin's Reputation

[Sherry Gomes]

No: HPFGUIDX 185693

Pippin:
He might as well tell
Moody not to limp. There is no treatment for chronic emotional
distress in the WW, beyond confinement in St Mungo's for those who
aren't capable of observing the statutes of secrecy.



Sherry:
Maybe there is no treatment, but Moody's limp cannot emotionally or
psychologically damage a child, as Snape's behavior could do.  He had no
business teaching, and Dumbledore was a terrible headmaster to have allowed
it to continue.  Of course, it all had to happen for the story's sake, but
that doesn't make it right.  I had an emotionally abusive teacher in high
school, and it affected me for many, many years beyond that, to the point
that after high school graduation, the mere idea of more school made me
physically ill.  Whatever good Snape did later in the series--for the sake
of his love for lily of course--it doesn't negate for me the way he treated
his students.

Sherry