I'd rather be in Snape's class

[jenny_ravenclaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 41162

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "darrin_burnett" <bard7696 at a...> wrote:
 
> Gawrsh, I love it when Jenny agrees with me --- makes me feel like 
Hermione when Lockhart smiles at her -- so it breaks my heart to take  
her on later in this...>

I'm tough; I can handle it.  :-)
 
> Very capable teacher??? When???>
<snip Darrin's examples of Snape's nasty ways in the classroom>

I never said he was a nice teacher; I said he was capable.  Irene 
really said it better than I could: the students pass his classes.  In 
reality, Snape would most definitely have been disciplined by his 
supervisor... or he'd be slapped silly by a student in the NYC public 
school system (just let him near one of my students!).  However, this 
is not reality (as much as I pretend it is at times) and things seem 
to be run differently at Hogwarts.  For one thing, the students who 
are picked on never tell on Snape.  As obnoxious as this sounds, if 
Neville can't stand up for himself or can't approach Dumbledore or 
perhaps his grandmother about the way one of his professors is 
treating him, why should Snape stop?  If Dumbledore knew that Snape 
treated some of his students so badly, I think he'd have a talk with 
Snape about it.  
 
> In fact, as I've said before, I don't think Snape wants to be 
> teaching at all.>

That sounds about right to me as well.  You know what, though?  I'd 
much rather be in Snape's class than in Hagrid's or *shudder* 
Trelawney's.  Snape may be mean but, as you mentioned, he knows his 
stuff and makes sure that his students get that knowledge too.

--jenny from ravenclaw, who would be a straight-A student at Hogwarts 
if only Hogwarts would send that letter! *********