[HPforGrownups] Re: More on Snape

[MadameSSnape at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 102637

In a message dated 6/23/2004 7:56:10 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
dumbledore11214 at yahoo.com writes:
Alla:


I was like Hermione in school... to certain extent. I always knew the 
answer (Not in all classes, mind you :o), in some), but I was shy 
enough to raise my hand all the time.

I cannot remember of any teacher who tried to shut me up, when I 
indeed raised my hand.

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Sherrie here:

I was EXACTLY like Hermione in school, save the bushy hair.  I knew the 
answers not only to the questions asked, but to questions asked in grades two, 
three and four years above mine - and I wasn't afraid to speak up (in spite of my 
great-grandmother's admonishments that I shouldn't let the boys know how smart 
I was...:::eyeroll:::).  My hand was constantly in the air, and I was right 
FAR more often than I was wrong, and could nearly always give citations to 
uphold my answers.  And like Hermione - it made me no friends.

You're right - MOST of my teachers never stopped me from answering - but I 
had one or two who found me "obnoxious".  My third grade teacher was as mean as 
Snape is to Neville - to the point of insulting my appearance (I was a large 
child), and laughing when another girl pulled my chair out from under me in 
class, and I landed on my bum.  I busted my posterior (figuratively, as well) in 
her class, just to prove to her that I really WAS that good - she used to take 
points off my essays if I misplaced a comma, but I STILL got higher grades in 
her class than even her pet.  

The point is, I worked harder for her than for any other teacher I ever had - 
because she thought I couldn't.  

Sherrie


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