Snape's canon opposite/ Proving loyalty (Re: Hearing from the Great Middle)

[vmonte]

No: HPFGUIDX 140191

zgirnius:
It's interesting that you should say this. Earlier this summer,
having read JKR's comments about how children understand what
teachers like Snape are about, I conducted a highly non-scientific
poll with a sample of one (my nephew, now entering the fourth grade,
who had just finished HBP and is a long-time fan of the series.) I
asked him what he thought of Snape as a teacher, and he responded he
thought Snape was a good teacher. He knows his stuff and doesn't put
up with cr*p from his students. So there are at least two of you...

vmonte:
Your post made me smile. My 4 year old son loves Harry Potter, and 
always wants me to pretend play with him. The other day he asked me to 
pretend that I was professor Snape. Before I even started acting my 
son looked at me and said: "Mom, you know how you can trick me? Make 
pretend you're my friend." He also told me that Sirius was mad during 
the Whomping Willow scene in the PoA movie because he was dirty and he 
needed a bath.  :)

Vivian