Reaction to Snape's death

[montavilla47]

No: HPFGUIDX 175726

> Prep0strus:
> McGonagall was tough-but-fair.  The Snape-as-drill-sergeant doesn't
> work when you see how he taught Slytherins in comparison.  Inequality
> in teaching doesn't equal good teaching.  either the slytherins aren't
> getting the benefit of the tough love, or the griffendors are just
> getting shafted.  Personally, i know many a student who would just as
> soon write off a situation where they knew they were damned whatever
> they did.  A good teacher is able to teach all students.  And a great
> teacher also inspires a love of the field and a desire to learn more.
>  Snape was a good potionsmaster, but not a good teacher.
> 
> ~Adam

Montavilla47:

Adam, please show the text evidence of Snape teaching Slytherins
so we can compare them.

Harry says that Snape treated the Slytherins differently, but, while
I can see that he sided with the Slytherins in any disciplinary 
situation, I don't see anything that indicates that he taught them
differently or graded them differently.

The only time he praises a Slytherin in class is during the first
class where he points out Draco's perfectly cut slugs.  

We also have him not awarding points to Hermione for something
Harry feels another teacher would have awarded points for (in the
D.A.D.A. class.  Hermione is the first to cast a spell non-verbally.) 
But that doesn't necessarily mean that he would have awarded 
points had a Slytherin been the first student to do so.

In CoS, the Harry Narrator (of Harrator) tells us that Snape is 
unfair.  But I don't find that reliable, as it's a student making that
judgment.  I'm sure if this was Draco Malfoy and the Very Annoying
Thing That My Father Told Me Not to Get Involved With, we'd be 
getting a passage about how McGonagall is so unfair--unlike
Professor Snape, who is tough, but always just.

Montavilla47