Snape/McGonagall/Neville (was: Admonishing Snape)

[monika_zaboklicka]

No: HPFGUIDX 130155

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lupinlore" <bob.oliver at c...> 
wrote:
> Snape applies his methods in such a drastically uneven
> manner.  Granted, we haven't really seen him with Ravenclaws and
> Hufflepuffs yet, but he certainly has a reputation for not liking
> Gryffindors and being viciously unfair to them.

We practically haven't seen McGonagall with anybody but Gryffindors, 
maybe she's not much better than Snape? McGonagall is no saint, 
certainly, she's seen as "good" character mostly because Harry likes 
her. She criticized other teachers in front of her students (even
more 
often than Snape), sent first-years to the Forbidden Forest against 
Dumbledore's explicit ban, was known not to bother with hiding 
impatience torwards less gifted students of her own house (Pettigrew, 
Longbottom)

> I could certainly see
> McGonagall being friends with a harsh and unfair teacher who applied
> his methods evenly across the houses.  

I somehow don't think that, when she stopped giving homework to 
Gryffindors to better their chances in a match, she extended the same 
courtesy to Slytherins. She's as partisan as Snape, only uses 
different methods.

> I can't see her being friends
> with someone who is so obviously biased, and particularly has a
> reputation of being harshly unfair to her own house above all the 
others.

Ah, reputation... Actually, we'll have to wait till Half-Blood Prince 
to know how good teachers all Hogwarts staff REALLY are. There's 
nothing like a thorough exam by independent examiners to show who's 
EFFICACIOUS teacher. McGonagall certainly has no liking for teachers 
who fail to teach their students anything, if Snape is able of 
hammering knowlege into the students' heads, I think he's just fine
by 
Minerva.

Monika