OT: Drill Sargeant (with a tiny bit of ontopic talk...)

[vmonte]

No: HPFGUIDX 94854

Siriusly Snapey Susan wrote:
I will make one last feeble attempt to bring out a difference that I 
think is KEY.  HRH & their class of Hogwarts students begin w/ Snape 
at age **11** and the war is **NOT** yet on.  They are boarding 
school students, not military academy students or enlistees.  No one 
has **told** them that their lives are in danger and they damn well 
better listen & learn this stuff because their *lives* depend on it.  
When a person goes into the military, he or she is 1) older and 2) 
*knows* his/her life depends upon listening & learning every detail.
Doesn't anybody else out there think this is an important difference 
in the learning process?  That one must *understand* the mission in 
order for the drill sergeant routine to be most effective?  
Somebody...anybody...? :-|  

vmonte responds:

I agree with you 100%. Snape is not behaving the way he does because 
he wants to toughen up the students -- he is sadistic. DD on the 
other hand may have made Snape the Potions Master in order to 
toughen/teach the children that they need to learn how to deal with 
all kinds of people. DD also likes to give people a second chance.

vmonte