What if other teachers behaved like Snape?

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 101707

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Lady Macbeth" <

> However, very few institutions (Hogwarts included) have the 
manpower and/or
> finances to cater to EVERY child's needs - they need to try to 
balance
> things among what staff they have.  Thus some seem overly harsh, 
like Snape,
> while some seem overly "motherly" like Sprout, and some fall 
somewhere in
> the middle where they're not remarked upon at all.  (Binns isn't 
mean to his
> students, after all - pbth, he doesn't notice when they fall asleep 
in his
> class.  But what are any of them getting out of his classes?  
Hermione got
> her history knowledge well before she ever started her first class.)
>


Alla: 

We keep talking about this overly harsh atmosphere in Hogwarts, but 
as far as we know there is NO other teacher there behaving like Snape.

Sure, atmosphere outside Hogwarts is tough, but really, what are the 
examples of really harsh classes "unfairness-wise?"