Snape Question

[potioncat]

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> Sue:
> 
> Or which would you rather have as a teacher? (g) Well, Fake! Moody 
was 
> actually quite a good teacher, whatever reason he was doing it. 
Pity about the 
> DE background. He could have taught at Durmstrang, anyway. The 
> quesation, now, is - will the real Moody be a good teacher if he 
ever does it? 
> I'm not sure he will.
> 
> Which is, of course, off-topic, sorry about that.
> 
> I suspect Snape is the sort of teacher of whom you'd later say, "I 
didn't like 
> him, but I sure learned my chemistry/Potions/whatever."

Potioncat:
I'd rather have a teacher "like" Crouch than "like" Snape.  Crouch 
was tough too.  But I'd rather have Snape than Crouch.

I'm not trying to defend Snape here...I'm rather trying to say, look 
at this horrible person, who has made himself seem good, who has the 
student body eating out of his hand.  I'll bet he could have turned 
a few to LV's side with just a bit of patient direction.  I wonder 
what it was that made Barty Jr join LV?  And I wonder which House he 
was in?  I'd like to know which House Crouch Sr. belonged to as well.