Reaction to Snape's death

[Barbara Key]

No: HPFGUIDX 175714

> "Jack-A-Roe:
> He was a poor excuse for a teacher. Insults and
> bullying are not the way to get children to learn.
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> Bruce Alan Wilson: 
> The proof of the pudding is in the eating. Snape's
> students learn. Even Harry manages to get an E.
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Both my sister and I had a small, little lady named
Miss Hughes for the the fifth grade. All of us were
scared of her. One single look could reduce tough boys
to jelly. A snarl could produce tears in girls. 

She taught us grammar and you had better believe this
fact - we learned grammar. I don't remember how many
sentences I had to diagram on the blackboard. Now,
everyone at my college (where I am an assistant
librarian) comes to me to get the answer to a grammar
question. 

Snape was teaching a class that was extremely
dangerous. He wasn't nice but he taught it well.

Barbara

PS About 20 years ago, at the "viewing" before our
father's funeral, a small, sweet faced lady walked
over to the chairs where my sister and I were seated.
She told us how sorry she was to hear of our loss.
Then she told us that she had taught both us. (Yep,
you have guessed it.) She said that she was Miss
Hughes. Both Carol and I jumped to our feet and backed
up in instant terror. She just smiled.