Teaching Styles

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 147800

> Magpie:
> <SNIP>
> > So yeah, my point here isn't to say that Snape's a great guy and 
> > Harry can't see it but the Slytherins can...it's just to say 
that 
> > whatever Rowling's personal judgment is on Snape as a teacher I 
do 
> > think she acknowledges the difference between Snape having power 
> and 
> > Snape abusing power and is almost interested in the line crossing
> 
> Alla:
> 
> Well, personally, I think that besides many interviews where JKR 
said 
> what kind of teacher she thinks Snape is, the loudest statement 
about 
> whether he is good as a teacher was made at the end of HBP, 
because 
> Snape is no longer at Hogwarts.

Magpie:
I think if there's one thing clear in the Potterverse it's that 
being a teacher at Hogwarts doesn't mean you're any good any more 
than not being a teacher there means you're not good.  


> Alla:
> 
> Ooooo, I completely, one hundred percent disagree on this issue. 
Take 
> my reactions to the text - I HATE Snape's teaching, hate with the 
> great deal of passion and if Hogwarts was "real", I would say 
Snape 
> had to be fired ASAP. IMO of course.
> 
> But he works perfectly for me within the story, I absolutely think 
> that the story would lost a lot without him. Why? Because the 
> feelings I have about Snape are the feelings I usually have about 
the 
> villain ( well, I used to have a love/hate feeling about this 
> character, now it is just hate).

Magpie:
That has nothing to do with my point, which is not whether Snape is 
a "good teacher" in terms of him not being a villain or people not 
hating him, but Snape getting results.  Rowling could have written 
him as bad in all the ways he is bad and also completely 
ineffectual, but that character would not be Snape.  

-m