[HPforGrownups] Teaching methods was ( Re: Petunia)

[weiss145 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 41196

First, I would like to say Hello, I am Gwydion and I am new to this lovely 
list. 

> I have to disagree with you here.  Alot.  The way he treats his students
is bad *under any circumstances* and esp. when his students are children.
Having a "strict and clever" teacher like McGonnagall is a character
building experience.  Having a teacher like Snape is a destructive one.-Irene

Second, to me, Snape seems to have the potential to be a great teacher save 
one thing. It's impossible to understand his motives, though I can try to 
rationalize a bit. I can forgive his bullying of Neville, thinking perhaps he 
is trying to either force some talent out of him or eliminate him as a weak 
source of genes. Many classes are rigorous and only the best survive. What 
bothers me is how he treats Hermione! Miss Granger is a rising star and 
really should be encouraged to reach her full academic potential. Unless of 
course he is trying to teach her humility which I hate to say, she sorely 
lacks.  In Riley's "Pawn to Queen", she puts forth the theory that Snape is 
tough on the Gryffindors to really spur them on, and goes easy on the 
Slytherins to make them soft and weak. 
.>Not enough to give him a grade above Hermione's, right? And this, IMHO,
should be enough to refute theories that his grades are arbitrary, and he 
passes kids just to get rid of them in the class-Irene

> I think Snape may have raised Draco's grade and lowered Hermione's but not 
> enough to switch their places. For example, if Draco got legitimately an 80 
> in potions and Hermione 100, Snape could raise him to a 90 without eyebrows 
> raised but no one would believe he scored better then her. Snape could just 
> give her a 91, achieving both goals. 
> Gwydion 
> 



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