Occlumency

[nikkalmati]

No: HPFGUIDX 191673



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" <dumbledore11214 at ...> wrote:
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> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, vanessa steck <vsteck@> wrote:
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> > Can we please not use the term "mind rape?" Rape is a term that refers ONLY
> > to the act of forcing someone to have  sex, whether or not that forcing is
> > physical or psychological (and, for the record, regardless of what the
> > victim is wearing, doing, or whether she said yes earlier).
> > Many survivors find using the term rape to mean
> > otherwise tremendously offensive and hurtful.
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> Could you please suggest another term then, I am really not stuck on the term only on action - what would you call "deliberate and not consensual violation of somebody's private thoughts"? I certainly do not want to offend anybody, but  that is what I consider Snape's *actions* to be. The definition stands for me, the term could be anything, but I honestly think that the analogy was quite close and sure, I absolutely agree with you about the definition of real life rape.
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Nikkalmati

I also find the use of this term deliberately inflammatory.  Just like harsh treatment is referred to a "child abuse" (which other posts have objected to as trivializing the real thing). How about "mind invasion"  ?

Nikkalmati