[HPforGrownups] Evaluating Snape (was: Re: Lupin's resentment )

[MadameSSnape at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 94235

In a message dated 3/27/2004 8:16:46 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
vmonte at yahoo.com writes:
Hermione is not a teacher's nightmare -- she is the exact opposite! 
Teachers want their students to be attentive and prepared for class. 
It's obvious that all the other teachers are happy to have Hermione 
in their class. Face it -- Snape is a jerk!!!!
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Sherrie here - former Hermione:

I think it very much depends upon the teacher.  I freely confess - I was one 
of those "bossy know-it-alls" in school - learned to read at 3, reading 
Shakespeare and Greek mythology at 6, while memorizing Whitman and the Gettysburg 
Address, high school vocabulary in second grade...  Half the time my hand was in 
the air before the teacher finished the question.  Some teachers loved it - 
others hated it.  Of the latter, I remember only one I'd classify as a 
"jerk"...and frankly, in the end the former did me more disservice, by never pushing 
me to learn to study, which seriously hampered me later on, even to this day 
(I'm studying for a HUGE exam in December, and stressing out MIGHTILY).  The one 
I remember as the "jerk" - third grade, Mrs. Cooper - is the one who pushed 
me - by putting me into "I'll-show-HER!" mode, and making me WORK to prove to 
her that I was the best.  

:::shrug::: Snape isn't NICE - but Harry had already determined not to like 
him, before he'd even met him.  We really don't get much of an objective 
picture of him, now, do we?

Sherrie (former Hermione, now a Snape...)
"Unless history lives in our present, it has no future." 
PRESERVE OUR CIVIL WAR BATTLEFIELDS!


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