[HPforGrownups] Re: DADA

[Robert A. Rosenberg]

No: HPFGUIDX 68275

At 21:21 +0000 on 07/07/2003, watsola79 wrote about [HPforGrownups] Re:  DADA:

>You know, that's a good question.  Dumbledore is so insistent that
>Snape is trustworthy, and mentions it on several occasions, that
>you'd think that trust would lend itself to letting Snape teach
>DADA.  Maybe he could be good at it, and if he could let go of some
>of the resentment and bitterness he harbors, he might even be a more
>effective teacher.  Compared to most of the other DADA teachers
>Hogwarts has had, it's hard to imagine him being worse (except for
>Lupin, of course!)

Given the way he acts when he teaches Potions, I would not trust him 
to teach DADA. DADA needs a teacher who can not only teach the course 
but who can prepare the students to be able to USE their training if 
they need to. Given Snipe's inability to keep his personal issues 
with some students separate from his role of training them, DADA 
would be a VERY bad subject to let him teach (although if it would be 
a choice between Snipe and Umbridge, then Snipe wins hands down as 
more qualified to do the teaching - He can transfer the knowledge and 
prepare the students even though some will need some counseling to 
restore the damage done to their egos when Snipe delivers unwarranted 
critiques of their work).

A poor training in Potions is less dangerous for the student that a 
poor training in DADA. Their lives are on the line every time they 
need to make use of their DADA training while the danger with Potions 
is of a lower level since failure with most potions is more of an 
embarrassment than the risk of dropping dead every time they goof up 
a Potion.

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Bob Rosenberg