Snape and Umbridge and abuse again WAS: Re: Bad Writing? (was: JKR a

[Bruce Alan Wilson]

No: HPFGUIDX 162945

Snape's behavior towards his Gryffindor students is mean and nasty, but not
abusive.  I had a math teacher not unlike him, and when I was in school we hated
him.  However, he was a good teacher.  How so?  Because, although we hated him,
we learned the subject.  I never got such good grades in math as I got from
him--and math was my worst subject. "The proof of the pudding is in the eating."

Bruce Alan Wilson

"The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man.  Other forms of
transport grow daily more nightmarish.  Only the bicycle remains pure in
heart."--Iris Murdoch



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