What if other teachers behaved like Snape?

[Ava]

No: HPFGUIDX 101123

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "darrin_burnett" 
<bard7696 at a...> wrote:

> Maybe when people whine about how bad the Slyths have it, they 
should 
> remember how the other teachers manage to behave in ways Snape is 
> incapable of.


I'm not sure who is "whining" about the Slytherins' plight.  
Personally, the best rottenness I've seen towards Slytherins has 
been the work of DE Crouch/Moody & more quietly, of Snape (the "if 
ever you apply for a job" comment in Umbridge's office no doubt went 
right over its recipients head, but still...)

At any rate, why on earth would JKR have all the professors like 
Snape?  Wouldn't it get a little tiresome?  The whole point is, it 
seems to me, that there are subtleties which should not be ignored.  
Not that the difference, eg., between Umbridge & Snape is all that 
subtle.  Honestly, would you rather have a teacher like Snape or 
like Umbridge?  Not a hard choice, is it?  Though I could see a good 
couple days' classroom discussion on the subject.  McGonagall is 
different from Snape, but has certain similarities too.  You put 
Hagrid & McGonagall in the same category - I wouldn't.  But that's 
the fun of it.

Snape's not a nice guy.  Bet most of his students pass their OWLs 
though.  And I bet he takes it very personally if they don't - not 
just because they're dunderheads, in his mind, but because he 
considers it a personal failure if they don't.  We could use a few 
more teachers like that - though admittedly, a whole roster of them 
at one time might induce heart attacks and ulcers.