In Defense of Snape (Against Snape in JKR's words)

[vmonte]

No: HPFGUIDX 122211


Shuan wrote:
You describe what Snape does as cruelty. I wouldn't use that word
personally, but whatever you want to call it, I can assure you that
methods of teaching very much like those used by Snape, worked for
me. They worked well for me. They worked for me, when just about
every other method didn't.

Hearing people say that calling these methods valid is absurd, is
frankly, rather hurtful and rather offensive to me. When you spent
much of your childhood being denied an education appropriate to
your needs and finally were lucky enough to wind up at a school
which actually managed to teach you... well, frankly, when I see
people describing the methods of education that worked for me as
invalid, or wrong, it sends a very clear message to me. My rights
weren't important. My needs weren't important.

Apparently I shouldn't have got an education at all - because the
methods that worked for me weren't 'valid'.

That's really *nice* to constantly hear and read, you know.

vmonte responds:
Sorry, Shaun. I never said anything about your education. I'm talking 
about the Harry Potter series. I'm also not sure why wanting a 
teacher to treat children fairly and without malice would make you 
upset with me. I personally do not think that treating children the 
way Snape does is right. A teacher who does not have control of their 
emotions in the classroom (like Snape) is a danger IMO. 

Dumbledore is right to not allow Snape the opportunity to teach DADA, 
it would be a fatal mistake, IMO.

Take care... Vivian  :)