Scary Teachers - Good Teachers (was: Re: Hagrid and Snape...

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 152873

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, ClareWashbrook at ... wrote:
>  
> And another one is that JKR is not a teacher and the characters are 
meant  to 
> signify other aspects of the plotline (such as problematic 
partisanship), not 
>  necessarily embody a educational philosophy.

Finwitch:

Actually, she IS a teacher. She's been teaching French abroad for 
instance, and reached an education in Scotland - not that she's 
teaching now, rather doing a campaign against the cagebeds for the 
sake of poor orphans and writing the 7th book - but she certainly has 
been.

As for me -- well, let me just say that there's a difference between 
a teacher and a lecturer. Snape IMO fits to latter category, rather 
than the former.

Finwitch