OoP(Spoilers) Snape as teacher (was- Occlumency - A case for Evil!Snape?) .

[Kirstini]

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Darrin wrote:
 >Snape's method of teaching was illustrated quite nicely in OoP.
 Write some stuff on the board, tell the class to follow it and then 
and then berate anyone who gets it wrong. Oh, I left out destroying 
a student's work because the student did something to anger you 
outside of the classroom.
Hagrid could do that. As could Trelawney. Hell, Filch could do it, 
except he'd have to write the ingredients instead of waving his 
wand.> 

Me (Kirstini):
I have to concurr with this one. I was a little surprised when 
the "Snape after DADA" rumours were actually confirmed (NB - one 
thing that irritated me: why ON EARTH would Umbridge ask him that 
sort of personal question in front of a class? Particularly when 
that class contains a pupil whom she regards as having already 
dangerously flaunted authority?). I had always assumed it was just a 
cunning ruse planted so that the pupils could imagine tension 
between Snape and Quirrel, Crouch, Lupin. I had thought that Snape, 
who, as Lupin points out in PoA, is an expert potion-maker, was 
really as suited to his job as a man who hates children can be in a 
teaching position. All that self-aggrandisment about "stoppering 
death" in PS, as well. I'd also assumed that the Hogwarts teachers 
would have to be specialists in their particular field (even 
Lockhart qualifies here, if you apply the term "specialist" rather 
loosely).
But the Potions scenes in OoP made me reconsider. And then, when I 
thought about it(have lent entire canon out at the moment, so can't 
quote), I wondered: has Snape ever been anything more than a rather 
irritating pedant in class? "No, Mr Longbottom, the recipe said 
2.111111111116th of a newt's eye. You have put 2.11111111117th. 
Idiot boy!"
I see no talent. I'm only inclined to trust that he has any 
whatsoever because that nice Professor Lupin says so, and as I tend 
to read a SUNLIGHT ULTRA version of the werewolf potion/Shrieking 
Shack events, I take even that with a grain of salt.
Kirstini