Reaction to Snape's death

[jkoney65]

No: HPFGUIDX 175685

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Judy" <judy at ...> wrote:

> Just a question -- is Snape's behavior as a teacher the main reason 
> that you hate him?  (As opposed to, say, Snape's having been a Death 
> Eater as your reason.) I'm trying to get a handle on the whole Snape-
> hatred phenomenon.
> 
> -- JudySerenity, whose affection for Snape seems to grow the more 
> that people here criticize him. (The poor guy!)


Jack-A-Roe:
He was a poor excuse for a teacher. Insults and bullying are not the 
way to get children to learn. Intimidating Nevelle, reading the paper 
out load in class in GoF, Breaking Harry's potion in OotP, etc. The man 
should not have been anywhere near students.

If he was half way decent to Harry then Harry may have gone to him in 
PS/SS or in CoS when they knew Lockhart was leaving, he may have been 
trusted enough to be remembered as a good guy in OoTP so they could 
have avoided the whole ministry trip.

As a highly placed death eater we can be certain that he committed his 
shares of atrocities. There would have been no way to enter the inner 
group if you hadn't proved yourself. He was so well thought of that he 
was given the position of being the spy at Hogwarts.

He is also partially responsible for the deaths of James and Lilly. He 
was then pathetic enough to ask for Lilly's life not caring what 
happened to James and Harry. 

So yes, there are alot of reasons to dislike/hate Snape.

Jack-A-Roe  who is amazed at the slack given to Snape.