Evaluating Snape (was: Re: Lupin's resentment )

[vmonte]

No: HPFGUIDX 94203

Mel wrote:
Point is, I suppose that whether Snape's a good teacher is by now a 
moot point. Harry's had him 5 years and is STUCK with him. He should 
certainly, by now, have learned to shut up and read the 
instructions. He doesn't even have potions every day. There's plenty 
of time to be nosy and inattentive elsewhere. The kid in uneducable.

vmonte responds:

My feeling is that in book 6 Minerva will make good on her word that 
she will make sure that Harry will become his desired profession.

I think that Harry is often a goof off in school and often relies on 
Hermione (Ron too for that matter) to save the day. 

(By the way do you think Snape's treatment of Hermione is justified? 
Would you say that she is ever unprepared for class, doesn't listen, 
is uneducable, etc. Maybe Snape doesn't like her because she is a 
know-it-all? Or maybe he doesn't like her because she has Muggle 
parents?! Is being a racist ok?) 

As for Harry...
I think that MM is going to straighten him out!  And unlike Snape, 
she will have the right teaching approach.   

vmonte