Hermione/Snape (OoP and a bit from PS/SS)

[kiricat2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 69767

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "adamjmarcantel" 
<adamjmarcantel at y...> wrote:
> As someone who, as a student, would have been similar to Hermione 
> (and, perhaps, Snape), I remember that the teachers who were the 
> toughest were the ones I respected the most (even the coach who 
made 
> me take endless laps around the Quidditch..er..football field 
> because I kept missing practices).  Snape seems to fit that 
> character.  He expected his students to have read the material 
> before the first class (which Harry didn't do..not that I blame 
> Harry, as he had one or two things to think about beside Potions 
> 101); has not, as of yet, tolerated any back-talk from students; 
> expects his students to follow his instructions (i.e. "I told you 
> not to help him Miss Granger") without question; sees no excuses 
for 
> his students to not have PERFECT potions everytime (I mean, c'mon, 
> he does lay it out clearly on the blackboard); and, as long as he 
> has to take time out to teach an extra lesson, demands that his 
> pupil practice (which, of course, said pupil does not do).  Any 
> rulebreaking in his class has yet to be tolerated by Snape and he 
> seems to show no remorse about handing out punishments to 
> offenders.  Even in the scene with Neville's toad (which I found 
> even worse that the scene with Hermione), Snape clearly saw that 
> Neville's potion was not going to kill Trevor before he "tested" 
> it.  Yes, I know Snape is not everyone's cup of tea as a PERSON, 
but 
> he is the type of TEACHER I and, I suspect, Hermione 
> respects...demanding and strict.  As an instructor, I can say that 
I 
> have always been ten times tougher with the students I expect the 
> most from (although I certainly do not use punishment as a 
> motivating tool).  That may not completely explain Snape, but it 
> would explain his tolerance of Crabbe and Goyle.  Perhaps Hermione, 
> like myself, thrives in that kind of environment and is able to 
look 
> past Snapes nastiness because of the kind of teacher he is.  Harry 
> and Ron, on the other hand, thrive in Prof. Trelawny's (sp?) class, 
> a class where they can not do work, make up answers, and still get 
> good grades.  Different people respond to different teaching 
> styles.  That is my take on Hermione and Snape's relationship.

I've decided that I'm going to repeat this little bit of a JKR 
interview ad nauseum, until Snape-as-a-teacher fans address it.

JKR has describe Snape as "a sadistic teacher who abuses his powers." 

Go to the Leaky Caulfron and look up the Oct. 12 1999 interview to 
find this quote. There is a difference between being a touch teacher 
or being a teacher who demands more from talented students and a 
teacher who is simply off on his own power trip because he can get 
away with it.

I don't care about how Hermione interacts with Snape.  I'm going to 
the source, the creator, the mind who created all of the HP universe. 
And she says "Snape is a sadistic teacher who abuses his power."

Marianne