OoP - Occlumency - A case for Evil!Snape?

[kiricat2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 66845

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "melclaros" <melclaros at y...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "darrin_burnett" > > > 
> > 
> > > 
> > I found it telling that during the Potions OWL, when Snape wasn't 
> in 
> > the room, both Harry AND Neville showed an aptitutde for making 
> > potions. What does that say about your teaching skills when the 
> > students do better when you're gone?
> > 
> >
> 
> That you're a damned fine teacher! 
> Isn't that the POINT? 
> Or are we to assume that for the rest of their lives no Hogwarts 
> student will be able to whip up a potion -- or perform ANY magic if 
> it comes down to that -- without a professor standing over them?
> 
> Melpomene



If your teaching methods have yet to get a decent result from a 
student after 5 years, maybe that indicates the student really is a 
hopeless case.  Or maybe, just maybe, your methods don't work for 
this particular student.

Or, in Snape's case, maybe he's just insane.  How does that phrase 
go? "Insanity is doing the same thing in the same way and expecting a 
different outcome." 

Marianne