Snape's DADA lesson WAS: Re: CHAPDISC: HBP9, The Half-Blood Prince

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214"
<dumbledore11214 at ...> wrote:

> I speculate that Snape wanted Harry to talk back to him. I mean, 
> really, what exactly was wrong with Harry's first answer to Snape 
> question?
> 
> Harry just answers "yes", that is all. Okay, he answers stiffly, but 
> I will be hard pressed to find ANY disrespect here.
> 
> Does Snape really has to insist in EVERY sentence for Harry to call 
> him Sir? I am still looking for ANY other Hogwarts teacher doing the 
> same thing. 

Well, I think it is completely normal that when a students answers a
professor they say either yes Sir/yes Professor. Harry only needs to
be polite and Snape only gives him detention after his very flippant
remark. A remark he would not have made to Sprout, Flitwick or
McGonnagal. He was rude and got detention. Completely deserved. 

About the praise: Snape does not give praise for the wrong kind of
work. It is not his style in teaching. If it were Flitwick he would
have, because that is the kind of teacher he is. But Snape is not
Flitwick and Flitwick's style is not the only right way of teaching.

Gerry

Gerry