Question for Snape Bashers

[Wanda Sherratt]

No: HPFGUIDX 101912

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jenny_ravenclaw" 
<meboriqua at a...> wrote:
>> Maybe Snape's actions do not affect his students as much as we 
make out.  
> That doesn't mean that Snape is a nice guy who really cares about 
his job.  If 
> I worked with someone like him, I'd avoid him if he spoke to me 
the way he 
> spoke to Hermione in GoF.  If he was my teacher, I'd probably fail 
his classes 
> and if he taught in my school, most of the students would cut.  
Isn't he lucky 
> to teach in an environment where his authority knows so few 
boundaries?
> 
I suspect you're right.  For all the worrying about how children can 
be damaged by abusive authority figures, neither Harry nor anyone 
else really seems particularly affected by Snape at all.  Harry 
doesn't behave like a damaged child:  he isn't having nightmares, or 
crying in his room because he has to go to class, or vandalizing the 
library, or talking about suicide, or getting violent or throwing up 
after meals or cutting himself.  So he dislikes Snape and the hours 
he spends in his class, and would rather be playing quidditch.  He 
doesn't much like ANY of his classes - he's bored and uninspired 
pretty much all the time he's in class.  He and Ron both are 
slackers when it comes to homework.  I'd say he's behaving pretty 
normally, and if Snape took a year's sabbatical, Harry's grades and 
attitude would be marginally better, but there'd be no great 
difference.

Wanda