Snape, Apologies, and Redemption

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 152318

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "tbernhard2000" 
<lunalovegood at ...> wrote:
>
Humiliation is ever a
> tool of the latest brutal power to silence the masses - Snape uses 
it to silence his classes. ... Besides, it's not weakness Snape is 
punishing, but contrariness. He shuts up those who disagree. Nothing 
at all to do with weakness - rather, say it is strength that he 
abhors, 

Tonks:
And exactly how else is a teacher to control a class or a student 
that is out of line? He is to intimidate them. I see nothing wrong 
with that. The little brats should know their place and stay in it.  
If they step out of line they should be darn happy that it is not 
like in the old days. The days that Flitch loved.  Snape has a right 
to control his class. And he does it well. They don't have to like 
him, they just have to obey him. Shut their mouth, listen and learn. 
Give `um hell, Severus.

Ah, we haven't argued about Snape's teaching style in what, a month 
or two.  It never gets us anywhere. And I know I shouldn't get into 
the fray
  but sometimes it is hard to resist, isn't it?

Tonks_op