Snape as Neville's teacher / JKR's sexy men roll call

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 168494

> 
> > 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.
>

Pippin:
Good point.  We can presume there is no  teacher that every student 
likes so much that they would voluntarily take the class, (Draco 
certainly doesn't want Lupin as a teacher) and therefore 
*all* the teachers are abusing their power -- the system forces
them to do it.

If the worst results of Snape's abuse of power  are  that some of his
students don't like him, some of them lose interest in his subject,
and some do less well in his subject than they might have done with
another teacher, then we have seen all those results with other teachers. 

If Snape is to be punished for his failings as a teacher, then all the rest 
should be as well. Somehow I don't think that's going to happen.

Pippin