[HPforGrownups] Re: Hermione and Snape/Definition of Snape-like teacher

[MadameSSnape at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 128346

 
In a message dated 4/30/2005 9:52:37 PM Eastern Daylight Time,  
dumbledore11214 at yahoo.com writes:

But  Snape does NOT leave her alone , he makes her shut up every time 
she tries  to answer his questions.


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Sherrie:
 
As did my "Snapealike" teachers.  They would only call upon me in  extremis, 
when everyone else was simply staring with blank expressions for at  least a 
minute.  (Direct quote: "Why you boobs!  You look as if the  mind has left the 
body!")  They KNEW that I knew the answers - the point  was to make everyone 
ELSE learn them, as well, not to depend on me to always  answer, since I 
wouldn't be doing their exams for them.
 
It's got to be a trial for a teacher, to have a student like Hermione (or  
me) in their classes.  Very bright and eager to show off her knowledge,  
intimidating all the other students ("I'm not gonna answer - what if my  answer's 
wrong?  Hermione will know!"), with a tendency to want to help  other 
students...even when specifically instructed to cease doing so (Neville,  anyone?).
 
BTW, Alla - one of my Snapelike teachers also taught my mother when she was  
in high school.  Didn't like her, figured out I was her daughter through  
family resemblance and some checking in the school files.  I spent that  school 
year proving I was NOT my mother...
 
Sherrie
(who's suddenly realized that except for one math teacher and one in  
elementary school, all her Snape teachers taught  history...)


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