What would Snape have to do.... / Snape as teacher

[nrenka]

No: HPFGUIDX 138658

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "houyhnhnm102" <celizwh at i...> 
wrote:

> Snape shows much more professionalism than some of the other staff.  
> As a teacher myself, I was appalled at Lupin's unprofessional 
> behavior when he set up a colleague for ridicule in the boggart 
> lesson.  

We've been around this on-list about eight million times, but I have to 
ask: do you think there is absolutely solid canonical proof that Lupin 
directly *set* Snape up?  The way I've always read it, Snape begins by 
doing something highly unprofessional--openly insulting a student in 
front of another teacher, outside of Snape's own classroom.  Lupin, as 
a rejoinder to this, states his intention to use Neville in the hands-
on lesson for the day.  Now, maybe Lupin knows that Neville's greatest 
fear is Snape--and maybe he doesn't.  But the only way to banish a 
boggart is to make it into something ridiculous, so Snape's going to 
end up being silly _by proxy_ no matter what.

I consider that far, far less unprofessional than what Snape does when 
he teaches DADA.  At least I've always been taught that it is 
absolutely rude to come in to someone else's class for a day and spend 
it disparaging the teacher of the class and his abilities (funny also 
because Snape gets some of the information wrong).  Contrast to 
McGonagall, whose opinion of Trelawney becomes clear--but refuses to 
come out and *say* it about her colleague.

That's professionalism.

-Nora can't wait to get her hands on her own class of little undergrads