Prank question/Dumbledore and Evil (?) Snape

[Ceridwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 154206

Betsy Hp:
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> 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.  
*(snip)*
> 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.)

Ceridwen:
Back in school, I had a teacher who, once he reached that wondrous 
place in a teacher's career that he could choose what he would do in 
the school, only taught the oldest two years.  He didn't care for 
working with the younger children.  Snape seemed different in the 
NEWT DADA class, and I thought that maybe it was Harry growing up, 
and of course I thought that part of it was that this was Snape's 
rumored Dream Job.  But, what if he prefers to teach students who are 
not there because they have to be, but students who have chosen the 
subject?  These students are more likely to be serious about their 
studies, and less likely to cause disturbance in class.

Ceridwen.