[HPforGrownups] Re: Neville Longbottom

[Deeblite]

No: HPFGUIDX 22991

At 12:51 AM 7/26/01 +0000, you wrote:
>True - Hogwarts is not your every day public school. I still wonder
>why the students have to learn to be tough there, as opposed to home.
>And  why is it the job of their teachers to teach them?  Shouldn't
>Neville's family be teaching him about behaviors, self respect and
>being tough?  As a teacher, I don't pick on the kids I see as weak or
>needing toughening up

Perhaps i'm mistaken, but i SERIOUSLY doubt you're teaching your students 
magic spells that may require a strong will/self-confidence to 
cast/maintain.  And considering the possibility that Snape wants the 
Defense against the Dark Arts job, he might be toughening them so they can 
do things like resist the Imperius curse..


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