DADA

[watsola79]

No: HPFGUIDX 68398

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Robert A. Rosenberg" 
<rarpsl at o...> wrote:
> 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.
> 
> --
> 
> Bob Rosenberg

So, you'd rather see, say, Lockhart teaching the students these 
important skills?  ;-)

My point in the above message was that he already IS trusted by 
Dumbledore.  He WANTS to teach DADA....couldn't it be that it's the 
frustration of not being able to that he's taking out on the Potions 
students?  I say, give him the post on a trial basis and let's see 
how he does with it.  After all, it seems pretty tough - even for 
Dumbledore - to get and keep a competent teacher anyway.  

- Lana Lovegood