[HPforGrownups] Re: FF: Snape, Harry, Dumbledore, and flaws in the books

[Erica Sadun]

No: HPFGUIDX 106425

>Dzeytoun wrote:
>>>So perhaps a very good answer to what should be done about Severus
>is that Dumbledore should hire another potions teacher in addition to
>Snape.<<
>
>HunterGreen:
>I'm guessing there isn't anyone. Potions is a very complex skill, and
>Snape has been mentioned at least once as being superb at. Dumbledore
>has been very stubborn about giving him the DADA job, but if there
>was another potions teacher out there would he still call upon people
>like Lockhart? Or in the case of OotP, if the MoM hadn't stepped in,
>who would he have hired? He had no one. That's always been my
>assumption about Snape, Dumbledore can't hire someone else because
>there's isn't anyone else. Putting the helpfulness of Snape outside
>teaching aside, why else would he hire an early-20s'(when he started)-
>Ex DE-who hates children, to teach children?


Hogwarts is full of bad teachers: Trelawney, Hagrid, Binns, to
name just a few. Snape, however excellent he is at potents,
is cruel--not a great advantage in pedagogy.

One might think that Dumbledore has structured his school more on
building character and a personal army than simply educating
future wizards.

-- Erica, who is not convinced that Snape wasn't Dumbledore's spy
*before* joining the DEs