Prank question/Dumbledore and Evil (?) Snape

[horridporrid03]

No: HPFGUIDX 154187

Betsy Hp:
I'm taking this *way* off topic, but I have a couple of questions. 

> >>Pippin:
> <snip>
> [Snape] doesn't seem to have been having a happy time at Hogwarts -
> - surely he'd have gone elsewhere if he could. 
> <snip>

Betsy Hp:
I've always imagined that young!Snape *adored* Hogwarts.  That it 
was a sort of haven for him where he was able to fully stretch his 
intelligence and creativity.  He found a mentor in Lucius, a friend 
in Lily, and a ready-made network in the Slugclub.  I think, for the 
most part, Hogwarts was Snape's ideal.

Except for the Marauders.  Which is why, in logical fashion, Snape 
set out to get them expelled.  Not fully appreciating the power 
wealth and proper breeding can give someone I think Snape probably 
thought it would be easy.  The Marauders felt they were above the 
rules, and all Snape had to do was catch them in the act and they'd 
be gone.  Unfortunately for Snape, as we've seen with Harry, the 
rules aren't *nearly* as hard and fast as he'd first been lead to 
believe.

Some of this is conjecture (with canon as foundation, but still, I 
leap <g>), but it's how I see things.

> >>Pippin:
> <snip>
> Fitting punishment, if, having kept Lupin from employment, Snape
> was forced to take up a job he hated.
> <snip>

Betsy Hp:
But does Snape hate teaching?  Does he hate being Head of 
Slytherin?  I don't think so.  I've had teachers who hated their 
jobs.  They didn't act like Snape.  The social ones spent class time 
chatting about anything and everything not about their subject with 
their students.  The non-social ones droned through a lecture or 
wrote their lecture on the chalk-board for the class to copy.

Snape does none of these things.  His lectures engage his students, 
he assigns homework based on class performance, he spends lab-time 
actively monitering the students' work, and if someone runs into 
trouble, Snape takes them in hand.  (Neville would have not feared 
Snape so much if Snape had been content to let him comfortably fail.)

I've heard this idea in fandom a *lot*, that Snape hates teaching.  
I've never seen it in canon, myself.

Betsy Hp