Hagrid as teacher (was Re: The Dursleys, the Weasleys, Hagrid, and Snape: Nice people get a pass)

jina haymaker collegegirl200521 at yahoo.com
Thu Feb 24 01:29:53 UTC 2005


No: HPFGUIDX 125104


Irene:
> As for teaching, he competes for the spot of worst
> Hogwarts teacher with Binns and Trelawney. And it's
> possible to argue that he wins the competition: you
> can learn history of magic from the books, and it
> appears that Trelawney teaches the techniques properly
> for the interested students. But with the care of the
> magical creatures, if your teacher failed you in
> practical studies, then it was a wasted time. How
> practical are flobberworms and double-ended newts?


I don't think that Hagrid was that bad of a teacher, after all 
he really didn't get educated much from Hogwarts since he got 
expelled. He is just teaching what he knows, while yes, it is a 
little bit too much, at least the kids won't forget anything that 
they learned in his classes.

"collegegirl200521"







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