Snape and Teaching, Does it Matter?

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 128439

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "horridporrid03" 
<horridporrid03 at y...> wrote:
> >>Lupinlore:
> <snip>
> >Interesting as all the debates might be, does anyone really think 
> that teaching is particularly important to the HP saga?
> >Frankly, I don't.  When it comes down to it, I don't think JKR 
> really cares very much whether the various characters she puts on 
> the Hogwarts faculty are good teachers or not.<
> <snip>
> 
> Betsy:
> Interesting, except, no.  No, no, no.  JKR is *very* interested in 
> the teachers and their abilities.  Frankly, the entire Harry 
Potter 
> series reads like an ode to teaching.  


Tonks:
I agree with both Neri and Betsy and would like to add to what they 
have said.  JKR would naturally write was she knows most about as 
every writer is advised to do.  But I think that there is more to it 
than that.  The whole series is a teaching.  And by presenting it in 
the format of a school and students, we the readers get into the 
student mode.  We on a subconscious level are prepped to learn what 
one of the greatest teachers of them all is teaching us.  JKR is our 
teacher.  And as others have said a good teacher makes the subject 
fun.  And she has.  And what is the subject?  I think you all 
already know my answer to that.  ;-)  We shall see.

Tonks_op