Digest Number 4550

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 98666

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, LadySawall at a... wrote:
> 
> So I have a lot of sympathy for Snape, even though I don't approve 
of many of 
> the things he says and does.  

snip.

Put him in a research position--or for that matter, *any* environment 
where he 
> could work with consistently competent adults--and I expect he'd do 
better.  But 
> I really think that if he had any choice in the matter, Snape would 
not be 
> where he is.


Oh, I have no doubt that as a  researcher Snape would do very well. I 
also almost positive that he hates a teaching profession.

I still don't think that he tries as hard as he should. 

If he indeed was forced to become a teacher that was most likely 
because Dumbledore was saving his neck from Lord Thingy or MOM Aurors 
or both.

I think it is a reasonable guess that Hogwarts is the SAFEST place 
for him to be.

So, if he knows that he is not going to stay here forever, he is 
still obligated to do his job reasonably well and , IMO, he does not 
come close.




> Come to think of it, I'm kinda surprised that after having to slog 
through 
> fifteen years of explosions, melted cauldrons, student theft, 
hospital trips, 
> wasted ingredients, and wave after wave of disrespectful 
inattentive dunderheads 
> (come on, you know Harry's class isn't *that* unique!), he hasn't 
killed 
> anybody yet...
> 
> Jo Ann
> 
> ...who does feel badly for poor Neville, but suspects that he's 
enough to 
> give any Potions instructor a migraine.
> 
> 
Oh, I am positive that Harry's class is not that unique, but other 
teachers have the same class of "dunderheads" and they seem to manage 
to deal with the rpoblems well enough without abusing these children 
on a regular basis.

Alla