[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape as teacher

[browneyes1420 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 18414

In a message dated 4/21/01 1:24:21 PM Central Daylight Time, 
kris403 at yahoo.com writes:


> I'm a lurker.  I hardly have enough time to read all the posts....  hate to 
> comment on something that has already been said, but this one I had to 
> comment.   I am a teacher.  Granted, I have only been teaching two years, 
> but I look at Snape's attitude from a different perspecive.  
> 
> 1.  Yes, Snape does lose his temper a few times, but lets look at the 
> circumstances.  Harry (along with his friends) do tend to get into a lot of 
> trouble.  Going to Hogsmeade without permission, going into the forbidden 
> forest, just roaming around the school at night.  They are breaking school 
> rules.  More often than not, they don't receive punishment.  In fact the 
> Headmaster has saved them a couple times.  As a teacher who in theory was 
> trying to be fair and consistent in discipline (I'm not saying he is), this 
> would push me to my limit.  Also Snape has been fairly sure that Harry has 
> been responsible for events, such as Sirius's escape, and he can't prove 
> it, and is basicaly told he is crazy.  
> 
> 2.  As for playing favorites in his classroom, maybe his is just trying to 
> show how real life is.  I am constantly frustrated with students who have 
> no real value for life and death.  They look at movies about war (Saving 
> Private Ryan) and think it is fake.  One girl in my class actually laughed. 
>  Maybe wizard children are struggling with the same values.  Snape lived 
> through Voldemort's reign of terror and he sees students who are fascinated 
> with the "Boy who Lived", but have no thought of all the other 
> consequences.  How many people died trying to stop him, how many people are 
> now the same as Neville's parents?  Countless wizards fought and yet Harry 
> receives all the glory.  Maybe  Snape is just  trying to help his students 
> see outside the world of Harry.
> 
> 3.  Let's look long term.  Hypothetically, Snape may have figured that 
> Voldie wouldn't be dead forever.  Since he was a death eater he would know 
> about all the experiments Voldie was doing to become immortal.  Maybe he 
> knew he would have to take up the fight again and so he decided to stay in 
> character.  If he had to become a spy again how credible would he be if he 
> had befriended Harry, or was even fair to him?  On the outside he is evil, 
> but I think Harry is going to respect him as he sees how Voldemort will 
> pick his plans up where he left off.  
> 
> just my opinions
> Kris
> 

I loved your post it made me think of snape in a whole new light!!
You should give up being a lurker, you make a great orator 
Joe
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