Sadistic Teachers (was:Re: Teaching Styles)

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 148116

> Betsy Hp:
> I pretty much agree with this Gerry.  Snape is not a sadist, so he 
> doesn't like watching Neville suffer.  I also think most of his 
> interactions with Neville in PoA are based on his frustration with 
> Neville not learning as he should.  I'm not sure I'd take it all 
the 
> way up to *angry*.  Because I think Snape is attempting (in his 
> Snape-like way) to reach Neville, to get him over his problem with 
> Potions.  I don't think he's acting emotionally with Neville (as 
he 
> does when he's truly angry).


a_svirn:
No, why should we take "it all the way up to angry". No doubt Snape 
tried to reach him in his Snape-like way. Crouch, too, tried to 
reach him in his Crouch-like way – and it worked, did it not? He 
certainly managed to get under his skin as much as Snape had ever 
done! Then, too, McGonagall. She regularly reached Neville in her 
McGonagall-like way. And it cannot be said that she failed to do so, 
either. By the OooP Neville showed all signs of being able to 
memorise a password. And when he is out of reach of his kind 
preceptors he has his granny to reach him in her very own way – just 
to keep him in good trim. Lucky Neville.