Snape's teaching methods; HE incidents; Voldemort and Love

[bawilson at citynet.net]

No: HPFGUIDX 150585

gelite67:
"As Katsirrius noted, it seems like part of Snape's caustic remarks 
or insults are also geared toward Harry and Neville's shoddy work.   
The question is:  why does Snape care if Harry and Neville don't 
learn potions?  Because they need to learn it!"

Potions is something that you shouldn't fool around with unless you 
know exactly what you are doing.  Remember what Hermione did to 
herself with the Polyjuice?  That's probably a relatively benign 
result for a potionmaking error.

I remember reading about a nursing student who failed a math test 
because of a minor error.  Her teacher made her write an essay 
describing what she'd say to the family of a patient she had killed 
by making the same error in calculating his dosage.  Doesn't that 
seem like something Snape might do?

katssirius <katbofaye at ...> wrote:
>> All the arguments to justify attacking Draco at the end of GOF 
can be used to make it perfectly fine to attack Harry on the train 
ride to  school in HBP.  Harry goes in uninvited, spys on the 
Slytherins in order to tell on them, gets caught by a boy who is 
in terrific pain and stress because his father is in prison and his 
family is under a death threat from Voldemort. <snip> <<

Susan:
"Uh, a boy who is in terrific pain and stress because his father is 
in prison, etc....so he stamps on someone and breaks their nose? Lots 
of people are under terrible stress, but few break others' noses."

The difference is that the hexing of Draco was a spontaneous reaction 
to his "Diggory was the first" remark--which in a previous post I 
likened to going into a JCC and saying 'Hitler had the right idea!' 
or into a San Francisco bar and saying 'Death to faggots!' (If you 
heard of someone doing either of those things and getting beat up for
it, wouldn't you say "He had it coming?")--while Draco's paralyzing 
Harry and then breaking his nose was a deliberate and calculated act.

Magda Grantwich--
"Does he really?  I don't get the impression that Voldemort has much 
love for pureblood wizards, either."

Voldemort doesn't love anyone.  He never learned how.

BAW