Teachers and fairness (WAS Is Snape unfair with House

[David Burgess]

No: HPFGUIDX 56558

> Message: 4
>    Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 13:29:55 -0700 (PDT)
>    From: Becky Walkden <runningbecky2002 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: Teachers and fairness (WAS Is Snape unfair with House
> Points? )
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> <william.truderung at s...> wrote:
> Give me an honest
> bastard like Snape. I wouldn't have a leg to stand on if I'd gone to
> argue his report card grade.
> Is he fair? It's been pointed out here that as far as grades go it
> seems he is--not even Ron has complained about an unfair grade in
> Potions. It's also been pointed out that he doesn't appear to inflate
> Draco's grades. He's not very nice. That's a given. But he's honest  and
> up front and that counts big in my book.
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> Me:  But in one of the books (I think PoA??), wasn't it suggested at the
> end that perhaps Snape only was forced to pass Harry in potions at the
> insistance of Dumbledore?  I know Harry hates potions because of Snape
> and Harry is probably not the best potions student because of it, but I
> doubt if failing him would have been an "honest" grade at all.  Rather
> it would have been a vengeful act but not an honest one.   Huggs Becky
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It's important to remember that we don't actually "know" that this is what
happened.  We get it, at best, second hand; we get it in the third person,
from Harry, who only believes that he should have failed the class and
that Dumbledore must have interceded for him.

-- 
Dave Burgess