Snape the teacher

[lunasaproject]

No: HPFGUIDX 152437

Shaun Hately:
> The thing is - as I have said previously, I *benefited* greatly 
> from some Snape-like teachers I had as a child. They were among 
> the teachers who taught me best when so many of my other teachers 
> utterly failed to give me what I needed educationally. 

Lunasa:
The same's true with me. In fact, I may hate more than one of my 
Snape-ish teachers at the moment, I know that they've done me good. 
In fact, people telling me I'm useless and that I'm going to fail 
always makes me want to prove them wrong. That's true with quite a 
lot of people in my year, actually. We may hate our English teacher, 
but we're not going to let him be right, are we?!

It also takes a very specific type of person to be the nice, cool or 
friendly teacher. From an all girls catholic school perspective it 
takes a reasonably good looking (or weird looking, as the case may 
be) and fairly young teacher to pull that off. And they had better be 
a good teacher as well, becasue if they start wasting time just being 
nice and cool and good looking (Or weird looking. It works for my 
Physics teacher. He's class) and don't teach you anything, the 
students will throw a fit! But the Snape-like teachers, tend to pull 
it off. No one likes them but that doesn't matter. I know I'm gonna 
to pass my English exam at the end of month. And I hate my English 
teacher. 

And I've always felt Harry was a bit of gurner, anyway. lol