[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape as Neville's teacher / JKR's sexy men roll call

[Jane "Panhandle" Penhaligon]

No: HPFGUIDX 168474

Jordan Abel wrote:
>> 
> Lupinlore:
>> Aha.  Well, IMO, it absolutely IS an utterly contemptible and abusive
>> practice on Snape's part and anyone else's,
> Random832:
> The practice being referred to is asking a student three questions to
> which the student is unlikely (not impossible; Hermione at least
> certainly seemed to think she knew them; just unlikely) to know the
> answer. Unless you perhaps misunderstood what we were talking about, I
> think you ought to explain further why you think it's "utterly
> contemptible and abusive"? He didn't even take points off for not
> knowing the answers.

Panhandle:

I can only speak for myself here. Snape's asking the three questions is 
more or less OK, but perhaps a more even-handed teacher would have 
called on another student after Harry failed to answer the first 
question correctly. But, in my opinion, when Snape says things like 
"Tut, tut--fame clearly isn't everything," he steps over the line of 
appropriate teacher - student interaction. If Harry were acting like a 
male wizard Paris Hilton, I could sympathize, but Harry hasn't said or 
done a single thing to deserve that kind of snide comment. He's just an 
11 year old kid. And, as someone who has taught at university level, 
talking that way to a college student could land one in a lot of trouble.

Panhandle
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