Hermione and Snape WAS:Re: Scary Teachers - Good Teachers.

[Marion Ros]

No: HPFGUIDX 152862

Clare:
> For the record, Hermione would annoy the hell out of me.  I had one  and
> although she knew the answers, she was self-obsessed and the teacher has 
> to  give
> others their chance, no, their right to participate and  communicate.  One
> cannot always pander to the know it all, they will  succeed anyway and 
> there are
> others who need to be pushed, prodded and  forced along the road to
> comprehension.


Oh, hear! Hear!

Hermione soooo irritates me. I don't think she's particularly bright either. 
I'm a member of Mensa, and my experience (and those of my fellow 
clubmembers) is that really intelligent children either do their own quiet 
thing or 'play dumb' to fit in the crowd. I'm all for more attention to the 
bright child (raise the bar high!) but that's because they generally don't 
*demand* time while they do need it. Children like Hermione, whose only aim 
in life seems to be to impress adults (and what *is* her thing with 
faillure? I'd like to speak with her parents. Amazing too that she often ops 
to spend holidays away from them too, but I digress), children like Hermione 
*needs* to be slapped down occasionally. They can take it (they wouldn't be 
such a gloryhound "look-at-me" irritating little know-it-alls if they were 
fragile little butterflies, would they?)
Snape is *good* for her.
Although I fear that miss Granger has too thick a skin to ever *learn* from 
the experience.

gotta run, plane to catch

marion