[HPforGrownups] Snape as a teacher (was Hagrid's name)

[An'nai Jiriki]

No: HPFGUIDX 98062

> Leah:
> 
> I don't disagree with the principle of children
> learning the world 
> does not revolve around them, or that they will have
> to work with and 
> adjust to some pretty difficult individuals.  I'm
> interested though, 
> that you use the example of Draco, because I can not
> recall any way 
> in which Snape has acted to make Draco question his
> world view of the 
> importance of himself, his father, and Slytherins in
> general. Indeed, 
> Snape's continual picking on the Gryffindor
> children, including ones 
> like Hermione, who are genuinely hardworking and
> interested in 
> learning, would seem to reinforce Draco's beliefs. 

Chris:
Using only Snape as an example, that line of thought
holds up. However, it is stated over and over that
Slytherins are discriminated against by teachers,
students and the general public simply for being
Slytherin. (ie the Shreiking Shack incident; Draco
also getting detention for reporting mischief in his
first year, yet when Harry and Hermione do it, they
are left off in his third year, etc.) There are
countless rumors about Slytherins being evil right
from sorting. So far we have not seen anyone sorted
into Slytherin that has not wanted to be, but I
predict that will come up in the next book, so we
don't know of a Slytherin defector. It may be we that
student is too afraid of everyone else to try to make
friends outside. We only see Slytherin wanna-bes
Draco, Crabbe & Goyle from Harry's Slytherin
dislinking view.

It seems as if Snape is trying to pamper the
Slytherins in a very personality developing time to
make sure they know there will be people in the world
that will care for them, because no one else does. I
would personally would like to see Dumbledore and
McGonnagal be called upon their bias just as Snape is.



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