Lupin as a teacher/Snape as teacher

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No: HPFGUIDX 138679

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> Carol responds:
<snip>

> But my take on Snape's role in the incident has always been that 
he's
> reminding Lupin that the "class contains Neville Longbottom," whose
> parents were Crucio'd into insanity by Death Eaters. (Don't they
> exchange glances there, a possible bit of mutual Legilimency or 
mental
> telepathy?) 


Alla:

If Snape is warning Lupin to be careful, then why couldn't he take 
Remus aside and tell him without other students hearing it? 
Especially if you are saying that telepathy was at work here. I 
think Severus knew exactly what he was doing and that would be 
making poor Neville suffer more.

But those are fundamental differences  we have in reading Snape's 
character. :-) I will always remain convinced that Snape gets quite 
a kick from watching his students' sufferings. 


I speculate and that is of course only speculation,but I believe 
that there are hints to confirm it, that even IF Snape turned to 
Light genuinely, he never completely abandoned his desire to cause 
pain to those who are weaker than him . In his DE times there were 
Muggles and now he had his students as poor substitute for that. :-)


> Laura Walsh:
>  
> > As a teacher, I also enjoyed this lesson.  Even if Lupin had not
> > originally intended to use Neville as the example student, once
> > Snape criticised him in front of the whole class, using Neville
> > was perfect.  <snip>> > Using a student with poor self-
confidence helps him to become
> > successful and boosts his self-esteem.



Alla:

I agree, Laura.

Here is the link to my post "Lupin's teaching methods" if anyone's 
interested.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/128479


Let me just end with the following - even though I do consider JKR's 
interview to be important for the canon interpretation, I don't need 
an interview in order to admire Lupin's teaching skills. I think JKR 
described them perfectly.

But to me it is very telling that JKR said that Lupin is the teacher 
she would love to teach her daughter.

JMO,

Alla.