Sadism or not WAS: Re: Lack of re-examination

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 186608

> > Pippin:
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> >  I think Snape both likes and needs to cause pain, emotional if not physical, and it's become a habit.
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> a_svirn:
> If it's become a habit, then he chooses to use it. You can't become accustomed to something you don't practice. 
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Alla:

Are you saying that Snape does not **practice** inflicting emotional pain and that is why he cannot be called a sadist or are you saying something different? I of course cannot give many examples where he inflicts physical pain, but the ones where he inflicts emotional pain ( the ones that I intepret as such of course) I can give a plenty. How about I will leave the ones with Harry for later and bring the one where he assigned neville to cut horned toads (that was their name in Gof<yes?). Yeah, I know, he  may have needed them cut, no I would never ever believe that he could not find any other student to do that. I would never ever believe that he could not find another detention for Neville.

And that is of course after famous threat to poison Trevis. No, I do not care if he really meant to do it. To me what matters is that he said it out loud and to me he did it because he wanted to cause Neville emotional pain and to me he suceeded very well. 

JMO,

Alla