so there is this post going around in snapedom which is yet another Marauders vs Snape debate and i don’t wanna reblog a wall of text with ppl getting salty but there was this one observation that i really liked that imo sums up really well why there’s in general always a lot of debate whether something qualifies as bullying or not, and it’s that a lot of ppl seem to think that bullying is “just kids being a bit rough and that if you do anything but ignore [as in, if you yourself start acting ‘a bit rough’], you’re engaging and share responsibility”, and i think this hit the nail right on the head, that some ppl don’t think that children can really be bullies because there’s a certain level of immaturity/insensitivity to be expected of them based on their age, so if a bullied child responds negatively to their bullying then they are exactly like their bullies “just acting out”, therefore in the eyes of adults without any first-hand experiences of bullying both parties are simply exhibiting age-typical behavior.