Teaching methods was ( Re: Petunia)

[darrin_burnett]

No: HPFGUIDX 41189

> 
> But ... we do see McGonagall being very strict with Gryffindors, 
> remember? It's emphasised in PS that she *doesn't* favor the 
> Gryffindors. She gave a very harsh punishment to Harry, Hermione 
and 
> Neville - deducting the same number of House points for each of 
them 
> as she did for Draco, right? I don't have the books here, so I 
can't 
> find the exact quote, but she is portrayed as a *very* strict and 
> fair teacher. 
> Anyway, I don't think that the "oh, but it's just Harry's POV" 
> argument is fair. Since the whole story is told (more or less) from 
> Harry's POV, then we should either discredit the integrity of any 
and 
> every fact or description we are told of, or accept the whole lot. 
If 
> we don't, it becomes a matter of arbitrarily selecting those facts 
> that agree with our theories and discrediting those that don't. 
> 
> > 

To my knowledge, Harry hasn't been wrong about the emotional states 
he witnesses. The meanings BEHIND those emotions trip him up -- Snape 
is the best example of this -- but he has a pretty good eye.

So much so, that I think this PoV thing is still hard to define. It's 
entirely from Harry's PoV, but that doesn't mean we're still not 
getting an omniscient beings' descriptions of the scenes.




> > 
> > Darrin says:
> > 
> > >Except for Hermione making the Polyjuice Potion, we have no 
> evidence
> > >of anyone getting anything out of Snape's classes except 
migraines.
> > 


Irene wrote: 

> > Who taught Harry Expelliarmus? Who put him in touch with his inner
> > Parselmouth?


Naama wrote:
 
> That didn't happen in potions class, but at the duelling club. 

If all one has to do to be good teacher is chant a spell once, use 
it, and then essentially say: "repeat," then I take it all back. 
Snape is a good teacher. Because he didn't do anything else to show 
the students expelliarmus.

And putting him in touch with Parselmouth is a reach to say the 
least. One then has to buy into the "Snape multi-tasking" theory that 
says Snape KNEW what would happen, wanted it to happen, and has to 
foresight to know that by the end of the year, Harry will be the one 
traipsing down into the Chamber.

Because otherwise, it's just a side effect of Snape wanting to 
torture Harry a little bit by teaching Draco a dangerous spell.

> Naama, who wonders how many fans Snape would have had if he had a 
pug 
> instead of a hooked nose <veg>


Darrin
-- Let's just come right out and say it. How many would like him if 
he wasn't a poor little Goth boy?