Snape's teaching methods (Was: Snape, Hagrid and Animals)

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No: HPFGUIDX 143923

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" <justcarol67 at y...>
wrote:

> Another point: At least two of Snape's lessons, one from Potions class
> and one from the duelling club in CoS, have been particularly useful
> to Harry: a bezoar, mentioned in the very first lesson and reinforced
> via young Snape's Potions book, saves Ron's life; Expelliarmus disarms
> Lockhart, saving both Ron and Harry from having their memories
> destroyed, and Harry uses it again on Voldemort in the Priori
> Incantatem scene. So Snape's lessons have quite literally saved both
> Ron's and Harry's lives.

Hagrid's lessons introduced him to Buckbeak, which saved Sirius' life
and the Thestrals, which enabled him to go to the MoM, though the last
was not a good idea. 

Gerry, who thinks it is ridiculous to blame a teacher for an accident