[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape as a substitute teacher and Hermione

[Gina R Rosich]

No: HPFGUIDX 56931


> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "darrin_burnett"
> <bard7696 at a...> wrote:
>> > I've been away for five days and I made it through about 150 of the
>> > 300 or so posts. But, I wanted to break down further Snape's day
>> > substituting for Lupin in PoA.
>> > 
>> > Snape commits several teaching sins here.
>> > 
>> > 1) He gets his facts wrong. According to Fantastic Beasts, the
> Kappa 
>> > is found in Japan. He tells a student. "that is incorrect, the
> Kappa 
>> > is more commonly found in Mongolia." (pg 129, UK)
>> > 
>> > So, the student had it right and Snape had it wrong. Wonder if any
>> > apology is forthcoming?
>> > 
>> > Forgive me while I break a filling from laughing at the thought.
>> > 
> 
> 
> ME:
> 
> I always thought that Snape knows what it says in the book, but is making a
> point that the book is actually wrong.  Surely, we¹ve all found an occasion
> where a book says something that turns out to be incorrect.
> 
> Gina



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