Snape and Lupin's Character Arcs (was: Lupin's Char Arc)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 119281



> > 
> > Alla:
> Humiliating and degrating children on the daily basis and  
holding a grudge against one of them, because he has a 
misfortune  to be  son of someone who bullied you at school is 
NOT a definition  of gooodness either.(at least in my book).<

Pippin:
Harry doesn't attend Snape's class on a daily basis, thank 
goodness. And it isn't Snape's goading that humiliates Harry, it's 
his failures at potion-making and occlumency, and getting 
caught breaking rules. Those things are Harry's responsibility, 
not Snape's.  If Harry knew he were in the right, Snape's goading 
wouldn't get to him any more than Vernon's. 

Would Harry do better with a teacher that didn't point out his 
failings in such a painful manner? In a subject where he wasn't 
motivated? His experiences in Divination and History of Magic 
don't suggest it. Harry doesn't see any reason to break a sweat 
in the subjects he doesn't care about, and he didn't care about 
potions.


Pippin