Question for Snape Bashers

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No: HPFGUIDX 102000

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, julie w <jjjwoolfolk at s...> wrote:
> 
> Not only is life at Hogwarts tough, I have a feeling that life in the WW 
> is tough. It seems to be a world where children are expected to grow up 
> fast and toughen up. I'm sure its been mentioned before, but this is a 
> society that sees nothing wrong with throwing a kid out the window to 
> scare up some magic in the child. We really cannot hold the WW up as a 
> mirror of RL, its just not.
> If it was, I believe parents would complain about Snape...Malfoy was 
> more then willing to go after Hagrid after Buckbeak. It seems like the 
> school Governors would deal with him if there were enough complaints. I 
> think the parents all remember one or two crappy teachers and figure if 
> they survived so will their children survive Snape.

Sue

True to the extent that if a teacher is getting results, the parents of kids in an old-
fashioned private school wouldn't bother complaining - actually, I'm surprised no one is 
complaining about Umbridge - just because she has power over the school doesn't mean 
she has power over the parents. They might not be able to get her sacked, but nothing is 
stopping them from withdrawing their kids and sending them, say, to Beauxbatons, where 
there's a competent Principal and Fudge can't interfere. As for parents having survived 
Snape, don't forget he's a bit young to have taught the parents of most of these kids. :-) 
Okay, maybe a few ... but he's only in his 30s. I suppose he might just have taught some 
of them in their last years of school when he was in his first year, but only just. And first 
year teachers usually have a lot to learn. Boy, did I ever make mistakes in my first year out! 
And I had training, Snape didn't. ;-)

And come to think of it, do they even have parent teacher nights at Hogwarts?