Snape and Adanced Potions? (was Hermione and Snape. Was: Re: Accio 2005...)

[Someone]

No: HPFGUIDX 128350

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "cubfanbudwoman" 
<susiequsie23 at s...> wrote:
> Phoenixgod:
> > Tough is good. Kids need tough sometimes.  But I don't think 
that 
> > Snape has any sort of teaching style because I don't think he 
> > wants to be a teacher. I would lay down money that there isn't a 
> > kid in one of his classrooms that doesn't know that he would 
> > rather be somewhere else, doing something else, than teaching 
> > them. 
> 
> 
> SSSusan:
> What will interest me is what we see in *Advanced* Potions in 
books 
> 6 & (assuming he survives) 7.  I see why you have interpreted 
Snape 
> this way, Phoenixgod, but I do wonder whether he might not be a 
> little different in Advanced Potions, where the Dunderheads have 
> been weeded out.  Seeing him in AP will give us a better sense of 
> whether Snape really would rather be anywhere other than teaching 
> students... or whether he'd rather be anywhere other than teaching 
> dunderheads.
> 
> On the other hand, if Harry finagles (sp?) his way into Advanced 
> Potions via some other route than earning it, it might skew our 
> results a bit, as it were:  we might not see how Snape really is 
> with advanced students; we might, rather, just see more of surly 
> Snape, bent on humiliating Harry.
> 
> Siriusly Snapey Susan

John:
Oh, there'll always be a few "dunderheads" who slip through the net, 
yet this is nevertheless a very interesting point. I once had a 
teacher who, as I recall, treated us younger students with 
disinterest, even disdain. Then, when she was our teacher in final 
year Chemistry, it was all business. She was fully dedicated to the 
task at hand, intent on helping all of her students utilise their 
potential. 

Can't picture even Advanced-Potions!Snape taking the likes of Harry 
and Neville under his wing, but a class environment demonstrating 
that Snape gets at least *something* out of this teaching caper? 
That I certainly can envisage.

John.