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Should Harry Potter consider Professor Snape more of a friend or a foe?

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by Mark Waybill

Created on: October 25, 2009

The sort of people who think of Professor Snape as a foe are more likely than not to be of the variety who enjoy surfing, attending parties, breaking the law, and acting in a promiscuous and violent fashion, all the time listening to heavy metal music and thinking that being different is 'cool'. Well to these people I say this, that this is hardly proper civilized behavior. Whereas Professor Snape is an upstanding and normal individual.

Snape is a lot like Daria Morgendorffer in that he is a civilized, intelligent and rational person surrounded by idiots, numbskulls and nincompoops of the most savage and unrefined manner imaginable. Take that baboon James Potter for instance. Of the hippie variety, Potter enjoys rebelling against authority without a reason or good cause for such behavior. As such he needs to be punished, but is not punished. I suggest that James should be punished for his unworthy ways.

Snape on the other and is a perfectly normal person, and as such I do not see any reason why he should not punish Harry severely, as he could not punish Harry's father. Punishing Harry is the next best thing logically to do. Besides Harry shows many of the tendencies of his unworthy father within him. He is of that violent and moody disposition which gives itself to acts of 'heroics' and to wild swings of emotional behavior.

Thus anyone who sides with James Potter and that fool Sirius Black are undoubtedly of that unrefined and savage variety who condone such violent and uncivil behavior displayed by Potter and Black. And I will remind their supporters that Black and Potter committed illegalities whilst at Hogwarts. This should not be encouraged, but punished as illegalities are against the law.

The punishment of James Potter, Sirius Black and young Harry is to be carried out forthwith, or I would have it done as such, for it is long overdue, and I commend Professor Snape in his attempts at doing this despite their failure. After all, as I myself am of the Frank Spencer variety when regarding success in my schemes and plots, it is not an entirely unfamiliar ground to me. Failure, however, and indeed inevitability of failure with regards to a plan, should not deter one from pursuing it, if it is for the cause of worthiness. I daresay that even if the punishment of these rebellious individuals is not carried out, it is still a matter of principle that one should fight for their punishment and bringing to justice.

And anyone who argues that Snape should have been the 'bigger man' in all this is a numbskull and a moron. I say this because this sort of preposterous sentiment is little more than a thinly veiled and obvious attempt to keep social order in the most Darwinian and counter civilized of fashions. In the interests of both civilization and progress towards a worthier universe we must punish unworthiness post haste.


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