[HPFGU-OTChatter] Old poem

[Shaun Hately]

On 18 Jun 2004 at 0:57, (Mrs.) Lee Storm (God Is The  wrote:

> [Lee]:
> Gorgeous! Very mature for a 14-year-old. :-)
> 
> I don't see how you could have made your teacher a Snape; I'd say that I
> have to wonder how our Snape would react if Harry or even Neville wrote
> something like that.  <Sigh>...Probably not.

Well, calling this particular teacher Snape-like is something of a 
joke - although he could be very much that way at times, at least 
with him, I always knew he genuinely did have my best interests at 
heart when he did it. There were other teachers who I was far less 
sure about - today, I am convinced they did. At the time, I wasn't 
at all sure.

The reason I say it about this teacher is that he took this poem 
*very* seriously when he read it. And decided, more or less, that 
if I wanted what I said I wanted, he would make every effort he 
could to make sure that I got it. *But* if he was going to make 
that effort, he expected me to do the same - nothing less than 
total commitment became acceptable in his classes. If he detected 
anything less than 100% effort from me, at any time, he hammered me 
for it.

The truly Snape like teachers were in an entirely different league.


Yours Without Wax, Dreadnought
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