What if other teachers behaved like Snape?

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 101658

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Lady Macbeth" 
<LadyMacbeth at u...> wrote:
Snip.

> 
> Snape's not readying them for being their "best" - he's readying 
them for
> the realities of life. 



If Dumbledore keeps Snape at school to teach the students a lesson 
how to deal with nasty people and JKR said as much, then I suppose 
the mission is accomplished.


But is everything else accomplished? Is Snape a good teacher because 
students learn how to deal with people like him in life? I don't 
think so. I expect so much more from a good teacher.

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 > Neville Longbottom.  Poor, long-suffering Neville.  Almost 
worthless wizard
> from an outstanding family of old and pure blood.  Should be a top 
wizard.
> His grandmother has such high expectations, after all, he had his 
dad's wand
> and everything.  He'd do SO much better if Snape weren't always 
looming over
> him and always tormenting him.  Look how much better he does in 
Herbology!

Alla:

Actually, yes. Nevill would do so much better if Snape would not have 
been tormenting him and as we saw in OoP, he actually did.


> But do we know for a fact that no one in the Order, including 
Snape, knows
> that Neville could have also been the boy mentioned in the 
Prophecy, until
> Voldemort made his choice?  How much does Snape know about why the
> Lestranges and Crouch Jr. tortured the Longbottoms?  If Neville 
can't stand
> a little bit of "hovering" and "torment" from a teacher in school, 
I'd hate
> to see how he fared against much more threatening and much more 
real torment
> from Bellatrix Lestrange, or any other Death Eaters.


Alla:


It does not matter to me. To me there is NO good reason for which 
person could be tormented. Snape wants to prepare Neville for real 
life difficulties? How about talking to his other teachers  and find 
out HOW you can prepare him in a  way it works best for the boy, not 
for the Snape sadistic nature.


snip.

An effective teacher doesn't just teach them something that any of
> them could learn by reading a book, he (or she) teaches them how to 
be a
> mature and capable person in the world they're going to be living 
in as an
> adult.
> 
> -Lady Macbeth



Sorry, I don't believe that that is what Snape does.


Alla