[HPforGrownups] Re: I Hate Snape...

[The Fox]

No: HPFGUIDX 56321

From: "hagrid" <rubeus_hagrid at wanadoo.es>

>I think Snape is not DADA teacher because he's a superb potions teacher. 
>And there's canon to support it:
>
>"I've been feeling a bit off-color," he said. "This potion is the only 
>thing that helps. I am very lucky to be working alongside Professor Snape; 
>there aren't many wizards who are up to making it." Lupin in PoA.

That demonstrates that he's a superb potions *maker.*  The world is full of 
people who excel at what they do, but can't teach it worth beans.  (But note 
that I do not subscribe to the "those who can't, teach" fallacy.  Feh.)  In 
many cases, this is because it's so by-god frustrating to have to start from 
scratch and deal with people who don't know things that, to the expert, are 
second nature and seem childishly simple.

Snape is a very nearly peerless brewer of potions, but do we really know how 
well he teaches the kids to brew potions of their own?

Fox

...
Come on, Nature
Just because I don't feel weak
Don't mean I feel so strong.
-- the Proclaimers
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