[HPforGrownups] Re: Dumbledore and Trust Snape rant

[SnapesSlytherin at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 73220

In a message dated 7/25/03 5:50:49 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
rdas at facstaff.wisc.edu writes:


> Excuse me but did you ever have a teacher like Snape? Even JKR has 
> described him in the worst of terms!! 
Wasn't me who said this, but I have.  My Chem 1 teacher was the best thing 
that ever happened to me (even if I hated Chem and I still hate her!).  The 
effectiveness of a teacher like Snape has been discussed many, many times 
(occasionally in connection/parallels with Hagrid).  What makes a teacher good for one 
person makes the teacher horrible for another kid.

> Is that your definition of someone being "a good teacher?" He is one 
> messed-up dude taking a bunch of his garbage out on someone who's played no role in 
> creating any of his problems. Not that Harry is innocent of being 
> disrespectful at times and invasive of Snape's privacy, but Snape 
> came out gunning for Harry from their first meeting.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.  That's the usual anti-Snape argument "Oh!  Snape was mean 
to Harry at their very first meeting!"  Boo-hoo.  This could be the pancakes 
talking, but I don't give a damn about that.  Oh yeah, it's the pancakes 
talking and they're not finished yet: Everyone keeps bitching about how Snape can't 
put anything behind him even though he's old enough.  Well, an old man once 
told me that "15 is well past the age of reason".  Doesn't that mean that Harry 
is old enough to ignore Snape?

> Please don't try to peddle that as being a demaninding teacher trying to 
> get Harry to rise to his potential!!  And I am sorry but I don't believe for 
> one 
> minute he is just acting to fool Slyths. He hates Harry and they are 
> on the same side, just as he hated Sirius and hates Remus.

So what if Snape hates Harry and Sirius and Remus?  He's allowed.  It's a 
free country (um...does anyone use that phrase in Britain?  That might be another 
Americanism...sorry about that).  Snape can hate Harry if he wants to.  It 
might not be right in people's minds, but Snape's free to hate whoever he wants. 
 I don't remember anyone saying that Snape doesn't hate Harry (someone might 
have, but I can't remember it at this point in time, so if you have said this, 
I apologize!).

~*~*~Oryomai~*~*~
--Swear to Salazar, it's the last time I'm gonna eat the Eat n Park breakfast 
at midnight...I end up saying crazy things.


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