Teaching Styles / Sorting Hat

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No: HPFGUIDX 157878

> wynnleaf,
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>> How many examples do we hear from the Hogwarts students of the 
past times 
> people have died from Snape poisoning them?  How many times do 
students 
> discuss a time  Snape killed somebody's familiar?  <SNIP> This 
seems to completely pass the Gryffindors by.  They apparently 
believe 
> that every time Snape makes a threat, they will be the first "test 
case" (I 
> guess) of Snape finally poisoning or injuring a student or 
familiar.
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Alla:

Even if Snape just makes threats and have not injured or killed 
anybody's familiar yet, which I will not put past him, I  personally 
find it not very relevant in evaluating this scene.

I don't think that when Neville comes to class and hears that 
teacher threatens to poison his toad, he should be expected to 
remember back to the conversations in the great hall or dorm and 
realise that oh, yes, there are no conversations about Snape killing 
anybody's pet, so this threat is not real.

As we know, Neville is indeed terrorised by Snape ( Boggart) and 
that is what matters to me.

I am also thinking about detention Snape asigned to Neville in GoF. 
What was he expect to cut? Pieces of toads or something?

So, yeah,  I find the fact that Snape considers to **making** those 
threats to be effective teaching tool to be so very disgusting.

JMO,

Alla.