Snape passionate about the dark arts? [was: Snape]

[erinellii]

No: HPFGUIDX 89787


> Carol:
 Sirius's statement that young
> Severus was "up to his eyes in the dark arts" was not quite true,
> unless you count his coming to Hogwarts at age eleven knowing more
> hexes than most sixth years. The Dark Arts are not taught at 
Hogwarts,
> so what he was up to his eyes in (quite literally in the Pensieve
> scene where he has his nose pressed to the parchment and is writing
> extremely long and detailed answers in a small hand) is DADA.


Erin:

Just because something isn't taught at school doesn't mean that a 
student cannot be deeply involved in it.   Suppose there was a 
student who was taking a computer programming class, was making 
straight A's in it, and then someone told your that he was "up to his 
eyeballs in hacking"  Would you protest that since his class didn't 
teach you how to be a hacker, he couldn't be one?  That what he had 
to be "up to his eyeballs in" was simple programming?

Students have interests outside of class, you know.

--Erin