Snape as DADA substitute (Was: Poor KnowItAll)

[Linda]

No: HPFGUIDX 57014



Chrissi wrote: 

> I don´t like his
> behaviour towards Lupin at all, too. I work with kids
> and I know what it means to critizise a colleque in
> front of the kids. That´s indeed bad done of him. But
> he had his reaosons (even I think it wasn´t wise to
> act in this way ). Lupin did the same mistake, too. He
> made Snape ridiculous when he gave his
> "patronous-boggart" lesson to the kids. > 

     Me(Linda):

           That really wasn't Lupin's doing. The shape of the boggart
was what Neville feared most, which happenes to be Snape. Lupin had 
no control over the choice; for that matter neither did Neville. 
Lupin did suggest how to make Neville's boggart comical, but if he 
didn't Neville would have failed the lesson. Is he just supposed to 
skip boggarts because of what someone in the class might be afraid 
of? He didn't even know Neville well enough by that point to guess at 
what his fear might have been. I don't think we can fault Lupin for 
this one.

        -Linda