The Dursleys, the Weasleys, Hagrid, and Snape: Nice people get a pass

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No: HPFGUIDX 125059


Irene wrote: 
> Hagrid may be good source of moral support for Harry,
> but if I had to choose an Order member (or a teacher)
> between Hadrid or Snape, I would choose Snape any day.
> 
> Hagrid dumps his problems on the Trio constantly:
> Norbert, Buckbeak trial, Grawp etc.
>

Neri:
Isn't that what friends are for: to be a moral support and help with 
problems? Hagrid didn't dump Norbert and Buckbeak on the trio - they 
volunteered. He dumped only Grawp on them, and even that only in case 
he'll have to leave, and he didn't have anyone else to ask and Grawp 
was family. You don't abandon family, even if they're giants.
  
> As for teaching, he competes for the spot of worst
> Hogwarts teacher with Binns and Trelawney. <snip> How
> practical are flobberworms and double-ended newts?
> 

Neri:
At least from the trio's POV, Hagrid has been the most practical and 
useful teacher at Hogwarts. Since he was made a teacher his lessons 
always come handy: 

PoA: knowing how to control a hippogriff was necessary for saving 
Sirius. 

GoF: knowing the weak spots of a blast-ended Skrewt was needed to win 
the TWT.

OotP: Knowing the properties of thestrals was needed to reach London 
in a hurry.

Only Lupin (dementors, boggarts, gryidylows) and perhaps Flitwick 
(levitation, summoning) were that useful. As for Snape, he was a 
teacher of the trio for five years, not only two and a half like 
Hagrid, and yet his lessons came useful only once - the Polyjuice 
Potion, and even that not directly - Snape only mentioned it in class 
and (involuntarily) supplied the ingredients, but Hermione had to 
learn how to brew it from a book. 

> Irene:
> (And before you say that Snape is worse as a teacher -
> I'll believe it when I hear a Ravenclaw say he is a
> bad teacher).
> 

Neri:
The Ravenclaws WOULD think that Hagrid is a bad teacher. He's not the 
scholary type. He didn't even finished four years at Hogwarts, and he 
talks funny. Few Ravenclaws will be able to see past that. However, 
note that it was Luna, who in the beginning of OotP though Hagrid was 
a joke, who suggested using the thestrals as transportation, while 
relying on Hagrid's teaching that "they are very good at finding 
places").

As for Snape, we don't know what the ravenclaws think about him. The 
only person in five books who said he was a good teacher was 
Umbridge, and we all know what are her standards.

Neri