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

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No: HPFGUIDX 153056

Carol:
 
> Both the rather large number of students and the presence of 
students
> who were not in the DA can be explained if Snape has lowered his
> standards still further to admit anyone who *passed* the DADA OWL
> (meaning that they received an O, an E, or an A) into the class.

Potioncat:

Me too.


What? You want more?

I think DADA is required for all students. Crabbe and Goyle are 
taking some sort of DADA class because Snape uses their marks as a 
reason to give them detention, and he says they will be taking DADA 
OWLs again. So we know they didnt' pass, but that they are preparing 
for the OWL test.

Draco is in the same class as Harry, although he thinks DADA is a 
joke. 

Fred and George, who scaped 6 OWLS between them, are both taking DADA 
in their 6th year. They talk about Moody as a teacher. 

Snape says in his first class, "Given this confusion I am surprised 
so many of you scraped an O.W.L. in this subject. I shall be even 
more surprised if all of you manage to keep up with the N.E.W.T. 
work, which will be much more advanced." 

It sounds to me as if the requirement for DADA NEWT was a passing OWL 
grade and that there is some sort of remedial DADA as well. 

Of course, it also sounds to me that Snape was complimenting Harry on 
a job well done. I doubt Harry noticed.

As for Draco sucking up. Well, when is it networking and when is it 
sucking up? (Yeah, I think he's a suck up too.) But, Neri suggested 
that more students should want to take Potions with Slughorn because 
he can help with connections. So, is it ok to suck up erm network, or 
not?

In the case when Snape told Ron to chop the ingredients for Draco two 
things were going on. Draco was pretending to be injured and for some 
reason Snape was going along with it. Or Snape didn't know he was 
pretending. (I'm not sure how he got away it with it across the 
board.) At any rate, a teacher tells student A to prepare something 
for student B. Student A obviously does a poor job of it. The teacher 
is correct in making student A give the better preparation to student 
B. Here we also see that Ron does a good job at preparing ingredients.

Not that I blame Ron, you understand, but I think McGonagall would 
have done the same thing as Snape did.