In Defense of Snape (long)

[TrekkieGrrrl]

No: HPFGUIDX 122128


A few thoughts about evil teachers and Snape.

I had a "Snape" at school. She was definately hated by most pupils and she 
had many traits similar to Snape's. She was sarcastic beyond belief and she 
didnt for a second stop being that just because someone might get hurt. She 
was also very unfair. Now *I* was that particular teacher's pet. Call me 
Draco. As I myself is a very sarcastic person, I understood her form of 
humour, and the two of us got along just fine. And she was one hell of a 
teacher, we LEARNED something in her classes (German...and 
physics/chemistry)
But as I said, she was often ver unfair. A friend in school was her "Harry". 
We were usually sharing tables, and as girls do, we chattered and such. And 
EVERY SINGLE TIME it was my friend and not me who was punished. EVEN when I 
initiated it. And I'm sorry to say that it suited me ... I couldn't see 
anything wrong in that teacher and she's still among my fondest memories, 
although I'm not blind to WHY the rest of the class hated her so.

So this is mostly to prove that "Snapes" do exist and that it doesn't need 
to mean that they're bad teachers as such - or evil. They may do evil and 
bad things. But also the opposite. I got a beautiful Escher-poster of that 
teacher once (and you just don't GIVE your students presents, so she threw 
it at me one day with a remark that "she didn't wanted to look at it 
anymore" ...)

So when I think of Snape, I think of Hansen.

Probably why I can't really see Snape as ESE too.

~TrekkieGrrrl