Chapter Discussion: Prisoner of Azkaban Ch 19: The Servant of Lord Voldemort

[pippin_999]

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> Alla:
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> You can only *expect* such acknowledgment if the person with whom you are discussing things genuinely sees such possibility. I don't. As I said above I acknowledge that Snape learned what is the right side in the fight and that all lives are worth saving. Said fact notwithstanding, this only makes him not as evil as Voldemort for me. Voldemort is evil on the grandscale, but any person who tormented little boy for years and years, little boy whom he helped make an orphan is an every day evil in my eyes. No flipping of the facts is needed. 

Pippin:
Is Harry's judgement  so poor that he named his son after a very evil person? Do you think young Al will want to change his name?

I'm not saying the way Snape behaved to Harry in the classroom is okay, or should be excused because Snape did other things that were good. But equally, the way he behaves in the classroom is not worse because he did other things that were bad.  

 Remember who Hermione's boggart is? McGonagall bullies her students just as  much  as Snape. Does that make  McGonagall  an every day evil person too? 

BTW, I think it is  a vast exaggeration, at least,  to  say that Snape bullied a little boy for years and years. Just try treating an eleven year old as if he were a little boy, and see where it gets you <g>.

Pippin