The real worst teacher at Hogwarts

[jenny_ravenclaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 56965

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "darrin_burnett" <bard7696 at a...> 
wrote:
  
> Now that Lockhart is gone, the real worst teacher at Hogwarts is 
Trelawney!
> 
> Here are her sins.
> 
> 1) Completely unprofessional to tell a student at the beginning of 
> each school year that he or she will die. Unprofessional for two 
> reasons. One, duh, it's a horrible thing to say to a young person. 
> Two, unless someone ACTUALLY dies, you basically show that you're a 
> fraud, every year.
> 
> 2) For all of the griping - actually it's from ONE person :P - about 
> Hagrid's closeness to the Trio, Trelawney has developed similar 
> relationships with Lavender and Parvati. 
> 
> 3) You think Snape was mean to Hermione? (Well, yeah, he was, the 
> slimy git) Trelawney's response to having her predictions challenged 
> is to tell Hermione "I don't think you have the gift.">

I have to agree with Darrin here.  Trelawney sucks.  She seems far 
more interested in putting on a show for her students than in actually 
teaching them.  Her dramatic entrances, her gasps and little shrieks, 
her dire warnings of doom and gloom... she should have been an 
actress.  I particularly hated when she told Neville (notice she 
doesn't say it to Ron or someone who clearly doesn't adore or fear 
her) that terrible things would happen if he revealed what was on 
their final.  Why she couldn't have simply said "You will be punished 
if you share the contents of the final with your classmates" is beyond 
me.  It's almost as if even she knows her class is a joke.

I don't even have much faith in Trelawney as a Seer.  For someone who 
believes in everything from tea leaves to the stars, she is mighty 
close-minded about her predictions.  You'd think she'd be aware of 
that fact that some Seers enter trances and have trouble remembering 
their predictions, but she instead accuses Harry of lying.  What good 
are her talents if she doesn't even know she has them?  

I adore Hermione for having the chutzpah to walk out of her class.  
Hermione had the logical foresight to see :-) that her time in 
Trelawney's class was being wasted.  No psychic ability is needed to 
sense that.

--jenny from ravenclaw ***************************