Snape's Hate

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No: HPFGUIDX 17037

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Morag Traynor" <moragt at h...> wrote:
> Harry does suspect that Dumbledore has stepped in to prevent Snape 
from 
> actually failing him (presumably unjustly), so he does draw the line 
> somewhere.  Having said that, I'm not surprised D gets daily owls 
> complaining about his methods.  Neither Snape nor Trelawney could 
keep a job 
> in a real school, and now a student has actually died under his 
care.  But 
> then, wizard government seems to be rather haphazard at best, and 
wizards 
> (including D) seem to take rather a robust view of life.  Given 
Fluffy, the 
> giant squid and Aragog, Snape is not the worst that Hogwarts 
students have 
> to deal with :)
> 

I agree that Snape is not the worst the students have to deal with.  
In fact, I think they learn quite a lot from him, mean and nasty as he 
is (and ugly, too as I picture him).  

Would he teach in the real world?  Unfortunately, I think he'd be 
tenured.  I teach in a public high school in the Bronx and I work with 
some of the worst teachers I've ever seen - and they've been around 
for quite a while.  Teachers can be mean, unfair, even stupid, and 
still get jobs.  Snape sucks but he has taught Harry and friends a 
thing or two about potions - I feel that I know a bit now, too!  :-)

--jenny from ravenclaw, who thinks having Snape as a colleague might 
actually be a refreshing change... *************