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

[Jordan Abel]

No: HPFGUIDX 168487

wynnleaf:
> Snape's comments about celebrity make up what I'd consider the wrong
> part of Snape's handling of the questions.  Asking the questions
> isn't the problem, IMO, it's making a comment that implied that
> Harry would have thought celebrity "did" count for something,
> because it was implying a criticism of Harry for something Harry
> hadn't done.

Random832:
All it implies is that snape thinks _someone_ listening thinks
celebrity counts for something. Harry is not the only person in his
audience.

> Pippin:
> JKR said that Lupin is the one teacher that _she_ would like to have
> had. Logically _she_ wouldn't pick any of the others if _she_ had a choice.
> That means, IMO, that Lupin is the *only* one who's not abusing
> his power, in the sense that he's the only one who could succeed
> without a captive audience.

Random832:
(_emphasis_ above mine)

No, he's, if anything, the only one who would succeed for _her_. As
has been said here, different teaching styles work for different
students and JKR-as-hypothetical-student is no exception.

--Random832