[HPforGrownups] Re: OOP: It is Snape's fault!!!!

[Jennifer Boggess Ramon]

At 9:56 PM +0000 7/1/03, greatlit2003 wrote:
>I personally
>wouldn't want to teach someone that had no respect for my privacy,
>and made no effort to learn what I was teaching.
>
><snip>
>Not all teenagers allow their curiosity to get the better of them.
>For all of his strengths, one of Harry's biggest problems is his
>nosiness. No teacher should have to worry that their fifteen year
>student will go snooping around their office.

replying offlist and to OT-Chatter, as this isn't canon-based -

I teach fifteen-year-olds, and while this isn't true of all of them, 
I have certainly had a non-trivial number who had no respect for my 
privacy and would gladly have snooped through my stuff when I wasn't 
there if I hadn't kept it locked up.  And not all of those who feel 
in this category were ones that I would otherwise characterize as 
troublemakers, or even particularly disrespectful.

Just my experience,

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act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. "
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