Rules of Respect was Re:Snape & Harry

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 101433

Barbara wrote:
> And just to weigh in on the respect issue, my personal opinion is 
that
> respect should be earned. If my 11 year old child (who I don't 
have yet)
> came home and told me that he was getting detentions and other 
punishments
> because his teacher hated him at first sight, I would probably go 
to the
> school administration. I would probably NOT expect or want my 11 
year old to
> talk back to the teacher or be disrespectful, but as someone else 
said,
> there is a difference between behaving respectful and actually 
having
> respect for someone. I think Harry behaved respectful for the most 
part.
> Which is more than I can say of Snape's behavior towards Harry!


Potioncat:
Oops. I was caught in the cross fire of my usual pro-Snape post and 
respect earned vrs shown.

Oh, if I was a parent and my child had Snape, Snape would be gone.  
And I wouldn't particularly care whether the child had shown respect 
or not.  (Of course, I don't play by the old rules of respect.)

The purpose of my rather long post was to say that according to the 
old rules of "respect your elders," Harry should be respectful at 
all times and that it wasn't cowardly of him to do so.  (actually it 
may have been me you were quoting.) 

Unfortunately, Harry doesn't have a parent who do battle with the 
adults.  And I suspect that if he went to McGonagall she wouldn't be 
much help either. (Although that might be interesting to see.)

Is Snape a good teacher?  Well, his students do well on standardized 
tests.  And don't these tests show us which teachers are the good 
ones?  Isn't that why we like having our kids take them? Sorry, 
wrong soap box.

Potioncat (who has also read Alla's reply and can't believe I've 
gotten myself into this so soon!) (Hi, Alla) :-)