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⌈ Secret Post #1509 ⌋

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I agree that Harry wasn't taking a single aspect of those lessons seriously. But that isn't being fair, since Harry not taking them seriously has nothing to do with Snape's actions, at first at least. But you can teach someone to jump. Bend your knees and then straighten them while pushing against the ground is pretty detailed and a valid method with actual steps to follow. Snape could have given Harry any meditation book and would've been more helpful. And what did Snape mean when he said "Clear your mind?" Did he mean "imagine your head as a white space with nothing in it" or "Think of increasingly fewer subjects until you can hold only one in your mind for an extended period" or "Focus on a spot and focus only on that spot for as long as you can"? These are all clearing the mind techniques, and all of them are more step oriented than "clear you mind." Besides, presumably Snape is intelligent enough to see if there are any books on the subject (which there probably were since there were even books on Horcruxes) and give them to Harry. The onus of extolling knowledge falls on Snape since he is the teacher and he is more experienced. He didn't teach, and he didn't try.

But my point was that Petunia did not have the distance Snape had, so any excuse that he had James looking him in the face isn't one that is more forgivable. Also, there is absolutely no evidence that by the time Snape was teaching Harry he didn't know how to act around people. Scrooge and Snape have a lot in common, especially that they choose to act that way despite having access to other paths. It still doesn't make Snape more understandable than Petunia.

I think the fact that Petunia didn't have distance from Harry makes me judge her more harshly. Family is an important thing. I was raised to believe that no matter how much you may dislike your family, they're still your family and they're worth more to you than anyone else in the world. Even if my sister and I fell out tomorrow and I never spoke to her again, if I found out she'd died and that her child was alone in the world, I would take him in an instant and raise him like any child that I could have for myself. Because she's my sister and this is her infant child. Regardless of anything else, she's my sister and I would never ill-treat her child. So that's why I judge Petunia so harshly.

If that's you're worldview then I see why you would feel as you do. I myself could not understand how anyone would treat a child that way, family or no, so I judge them equally hard. Also, where I live, while it's still hard to remove a child from an unhappy home, it's harder still to remove a teacher who abuses his power over his students, mostly because of unions. I also feel like Harry felt he had slightly more power as he got older in his relationship with his relatives, but that it never equalized with Snape.

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