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

[jsmithqwert]

No: HPFGUIDX 66868

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Kirstini" <kirst_inn at y...> 
wrote:
> 
> 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

I agree about the whole talent thing.  Afterall, aren't difficult 
potions only difficult to make because of so many instructions and 
ingredients.  Anybody who can read and identify the reagents ought to 
be able to make the most complex potion in the world.  It's just step-
by-step instructions.

jsmithqwert