Teaching Styles

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No: HPFGUIDX 147902

Carol:
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> That aside, how can Snape be blamed if Draco becomes a DE? He's
> following in his father's footsteps, not Snape's. His father's 
arrest
> is clearly the stimulus for his joining Voldemort, as we can see as
> early as the end of OoP. 
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Alla:

Agreed, as I told you earlier. :-) I blame Snape for many things, 
but I certainly don't think that he has much control in whether his 
students join Voldemort. I was just responding to the idea that if 
not many Slytherins joined Voldemort during Snape being Slytherin's 
HOH, that somehow makes him a good teacher. I don't think we know 
one way or another, but I certainly think that Snape has little 
control over his students joining or NOT joining DE.


Carol:
Draco may be sixteen, but a sixteen-year-old
> is old enough to be held responsible for his own decisions.

Alla:

Agreed again, little shmuck was SO happy to be in Voldemort's 
service in the beginning of the year, but unless we will learn that 
Snape was actively hypnotizing Draco and forcing him to join (which 
I think we can safely assume never happened), I do not blame Snape 
for this.

> Potioncat:
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>> The biggest difficulty, aside from the fact that we, as a group, 
> don't even agree upon the defintion of a good teacher, is that we 
all 
> see Snape through a different filter. Upthread somewhere Alla 
> commented that while canon supported one view, she also had her 
years 
> of knowing Snape to use in support of a different view (I know, I 
> really should go get that comment, but it's close, isn't it?) The 
> bigger point is that it brought home to me that I'm doing the same 
> thing. Some see Snape through a filter that associates cruelty as 
a 
> motive in the way Snape deals with Harry. Some see through a 
filter 
> that adjusts for "there's a reason for this/it's more than it 
seems." 
> None of us just read the page and move on.

Alla:

It is very close, my dear. In fact I am still to see you 
misinterpreting my words once. Thank you for that! Of course, I 
agree we all see Snape through our filters plus bringing our 
experiences to the mix too. It is just to me many of his actions are 
reprehensible on its face, regardless of whether they are more than 
it seems or not.

 
> Potioncat,(feel free at any time to attribute any brilliant points 
to 
> me.)  ;-)
>

Alla:

Do you know how easy it is to see another side POV when the debater 
is so polite, unconfrontational, and always ready to entertain 
opposing POV as you are? I told you many times, but I will say it 
again you are one of my very favorite people to disagree with.

Alla,

Hoping that she did not just write what in essence called "me too" 
Hopefully she at least explained why she agrees in more details