Son of Insecure!Snape (Was: prof-student etiquitte + Potions master stuff)

[tonks_op]

No: HPFGUIDX 111916

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Nora Renka" <nrenka at y...> 
wrote:
  There's a 
> point when it's an insistence upon common courtesy, but there's 
also 
> a point where it's an attempt to solidify one's power and control 
> over the students.  Everyone I've talked to in academia knows at 
> least one of those--their tendency to snap back comes out of an 
> intense defensiveness.  Attacking their ideas is like attacking 
the 
> person themself.
> 
> Snape strikes me as one of those, and after OotP revelations, I'm 
not 
> surprised.  
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Tonks here:

I also think that Snape does not like teaching, and probably has 
that position because after his DE days it was all that he could 
get. It takes something of a Saint IMO to enjoy teaching... 
especially teenagers!!!  Of course Snape wants some control over the 
little demons!!! He is the teacher, THE MASTER, and he SHOULD have 
control of his classroom. Not like that wimp of a professor Bimms, 
who is even surprised if a student is actually listening!  And in 
the old school a student would never dream of "attacking their 
(professor's) ideas". The student is there to learn. Mouth shut, 
ears open!!!  I have great empathy for Snape. (And no I have never 
been a teacher.)

Tonks_op