Snape's teaching style

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> 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:

Yes,indeed. I am just saying that IMO Rowling is primarily into 
portraying Snape as abusing his power and would probably not let 
Snape teach at the end for that reason among others
 
> 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.  

Alla:

Right, but you said in your previous post:
"if he was no good as a teacher at all I don't think he'd work the 
> way he needs to work in the story.". You did not specify IMO what 
did you mean by "he'd work the way he needs to work in the story".

To me character working within the story means that character fulfils 
the function that author intends him to fulfill, that the story in 
essense works for my mind and my feelings.

Basically what you are saying is that to you Snape working within the 
story means getting results? Okay, but then I still think that Snape 
does not get any results from Harry and Neville and that it is to me 
actually one of the greatest arguments for Snape ineefectiveness as a 
teacher for these two, but by extension probably for everybody else, 
although we don't know of course about everybody else.

If Snape is indeed concerned about Harry learning ( that is if he is 
DD!M Snape of course), then why does he not CHANGE his methods, if he 
sees that what he does clearly IMO does not work for Harry.

Good teacher IMO should be flexible, Snape IMO so not.

JMO,

Alla, who hopes that her ramblings made sense