Hermione and Snape/Definition of Snape-like teacher

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Alla earlier:
 
Hmmm, I think you actually proved my point, sort of. :-) Snape is 
not interested in the students who know the answers, correct? So, 
how exactly this is a good environment for gifted child, if teacher 
is not interested in her? 
 
Pippin:
Because often the best thing a teacher can do for a gifted child
is to stay the !@#$ out of her way and not put any additional 
pressure on her. McGonagall fulfills the first part but not the
second.
 
Remember the time turner? Remember who Hermione's boggart is? 

There'd be even more pressure on Hermione to have the right answer
when called on in potions with a chorus of Slytherins ready to 
pounce and snigger if she got anything wrong. 


Alla:

But Snape does NOT leave her alone , he makes her shut up every time 
she tries to answer his questions. And if he indeed leaves her 
alone, again why should he take a credit for teaching her anything?
What kind of teaching is that,when teacher gives you no feedback on 
how you are doing?

As to time - turner, didn't Hermione go to MCGonagall, because she 
wanted help in managing her busy schedule? Sure it went out all 
wrong, but McGonagall did not make Hermione to sign up for too many 
classes. She just tried her best to help AFTER Hermione already did 
it, IMO.

Good point about McGonagall being Hermione's boggart though - she 
gets some points deducted  in competition for being most suitable 
teacher for Hermione. :-)

She is still way ahead of Snape , IMO. :-)

Besides, Doesn't it show that Mcgonagall indeed forces Hermione to 
study?


 
Alla earlier :
 
I see absolutely no rudeness in Harry answers. I think he was 
honestly telling Snape that Hermione knows better than him.
 
Pippin:
"I don't know," said Harry quietly. "I think Hermione does, though,
why don't you ask her."
A few people laughed. Harry caught Seamus's eye and Seamus 
winked.
 
If  Harry had no idea he was insulting  Snape (and Hermione!)
I think he'd have  been puzzled about why  people laughed and 
Seamus winked.
 

Alla:

Unless  Harry thought that his classmates laughing at his answers 
was how it is supposed to be during the lesson and was not surprised 
at  all.

After all, he did have a hard time in his school before Hogwarts. 
" At school, Harry had no one. Everybody knew that Dudley's gang 
hated that odd Harry Potter in his bagy old clothes and broken 
glasses, and nobody liked to disagree with Dudley's gang" - PS/SS, 
paperback, p.31.

He was probably used at people laughing at him.


Harry answered "quietly"- not smiling, not smirking at 
Snape, "quietly". To me it says that it was a timid reply of a boy 
who just arrived into a completely new world and the last thing he 
wanted was insult someone who was a teacher and a wizard in this new 
world.

But again as I said - it is just me and we will have to agree to 
disagree on that.

 
Shaun:
Teachers do not have to be nice. Teachers do not have to be kind. 
Teachers do not even have to be emotionally stable. None of those 
things are relevant to their abilities as teachers - because a 
teachers job is to teach.

Phoenixgod 2000:
Well, I would argue that a teacher really should be emotionally 
stable in order to teach.  Maybe even moreso when it comes to magic, 
which seems to require a certain mastery of emotions. Emotional 
instability certainly held Snape back from properly teaching Harry.


Alla:

Amen to that. No, teacher does not have to be nice, but teacher has 
no right to harm students and IMO emotionally unstable teacher has 
no business being near children, simply because he/she may harm them 
permanently AND it will interfere with their ability to teach.

Who knows which action may trigger alarm in the emotionally unstable 
teacher's head and what he/she can do to the student who did it. 


Just my opinion of course,

Alla.