Snapes Attitude towards the Students

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 108148

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "stephenflynn001" 
<stephenflynn001 at y...> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Does anybody know if Snape has every been disciplined for the 
actions and behaviour towards not just Harry but all the students 
outside of  Slytherin.  It seems ridiculous that a person with his 
temperment and obvious chip on his shoulder should be responsible 
for childrens development.
> 

Potioncat:
Canon doesn't tell us whether Snape is now or ever has been as ill 
tempered to anyone else in the same way  he has to Neville, Harry 
and Hermione. Canon has indicated he's a strict, unfair teacher.

We don't know whether the administration knows the extent of his 
behavior.  JKR has indicated that DD knows and accepts it as a 
lesson kids have to learn.  I tend to think (my opinion) that DD and 
McGonagall know Severus in way they knew James, in the way they know 
Harry and Ron.  They would know the whole person, not just the 
overbearing man we know. So they are accepting of his faults within 
that context. And in CoS, he seems to be a respected member of the 
faculty.

JKR has created a fun and spooky sort of mixed-up time place.  It 
all happens in our present, but the WW seems to be caught in several 
different "times" at once. And the attitude to education seems to 
reflect that as well.

Does any of that make sense?

Potioncat (Who was joking in her previous post to this thread.)