A Different Look at Snape

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 35632


The Barkeep wrote:
	A post explaining Snape's why Snape's hateful behavior  may 
have a positive side.

Oh, yeah. My kid had a Snape-clone (in behavior not 
appearance) for sixth grade. Understand, I do not like this 
woman. I still grit my teeth when I think of her.  She hurt my kid 
and I'm not happy about it. But...

Michael had always been a little slow in math. All his teachers up 
till this one had been willing to modify his assignments. She 
absolutely refused to give him extra time in math. She humiliated 
him in countless ways. He was in tears every night for a week. 
Still, he didn't want to switch teachers, even though I told him that 
it would be okay to do that. He wanted to show he was tough.

She told him he needed to work harder. So I went to her and 
said, "Is there any other reason that he could be having this 
trouble besides not working hard enough." And she said, "He 
could have a learning disability." Well that had always been in 
the back of my mind, but I kept telling myself his problems 
weren't *that* bad. But she made me so mad I had him tested. 
And you know what....he does have a learning disability. And 
because he got the help he needed, he now keeps up with his 
class in math and doesn't need to have his assignments 
modified any more. 

It's often struck me that Neville could have the magical equivalent 
of a learning disability. 	Could it be that Snape's treatment of 
Neville will finally make someone mad enough to find out why 
he's having the problems he is? 

Pippin