Rampant Ingratitude, was Re:Lusting After Snape

[amiabledorsai]

No: HPFGUIDX 129389

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Amanda Geist" <editor at t...> wrote:

> 
> I think there is a fundamental misunderstanding here. This
> discussion seems to assume that teaching is Snape's job. I disagree.

It's the job he gets paid for.  From what we've seen, he's miserable
at it.  If he doesn't do it properly he's betraying Dumbledore, his
students, their parents, and the wizarding world as a whole.

And sowing the seeds of his failure at one of the most important jobs
he'll ever be given, to boot.

> ...but if Dumbledore ran a coffee shop, Snape would have
> spent the last 14 years making latte. And being nasty to the
>customers...

Agreed, he'd probably be a failure at any job that required any sort
of mature attitude.  

> The fact remains, that in OoP Dumbledore asked the two
> of them, Snape and Harry, to interact in a different way--not
> Hogwarts teacher/student, but fellow fighters against Voldemort. In
> fact, the Hogwarts relationship was used to hide the true purpose. 
> And Snape did what I believe to be his flawed best, even though he 
> was putting himself at risk--and Harry behaved like a child with no
> awareness of the stakes or magnitude.

So, after suffering four-and-a-half years of constant abuse, wretched
teaching, and grossly unfair treatment at Snape's hands, a 15-year-old
fails to completely trust him, and has trouble learning.  A competent
teacher might take his own failings into account, and find another
approach... Oh, wait, he did!  He got his feelings hurt, and
terminated the lessons entirely, apparently without informing the rest
of the Order, leaving his charge in worse condition than he found him.

All because he's still angry at a man fourteen years dead.

And you complain about the 15-year old's immaturity.

Amiable Dorsai