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

[Dana]

No: HPFGUIDX 168495

Pippin:
> 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.

Dana:
My problem with Snape as a teacher is not about his teaching methods 
but about his misuse of power to express his favoritism and his 
dislikes. When he ridicules and bullies his students, it has nothing to 
do with him teaching potions but everything to do with his personal 
dislike of the student. And we see how different he is from one student 
to the next. Both Hermione and Draco are good at the subject, yet he 
ridicules Hermione while acting nice towards Draco. There are other bad 
students in his class but he doesn't call them stupid or bullies them 
constantly.

As someone else has pointed out he got mad at Harry for not preventing 
Neville to make a mistake but when Hermione tries to help Neville in 
later years Snape punishes her for her efforts. If Snape teaching 
methods were all about teaching then he would treat everybody the same 
and then I could agree it would work for some but not for others but 
that is not what we have seen on page now have we? No, we see that he 
bullies specific students while treating other students normal. He even 
elevates the feelings of superiority of those students he treats normal 
by allowing them to mock the same students he dislikes, in front of him 
because it boosts his own ego to have these students laugh with him.

If he was all about fairness then Draco's arrogance and feeling of 
superiority should equally cause Snape the same worries that people are 
saying it must be the reason for why Snape treats Harry the way he does 
but he doesn't now does he. No, he actually enforces this behavior in 
Draco by letting Draco openly amuse himself at Harry's coast. And why 
do you think that is? Because Snape is a personal friend of the 
Malfoy's and if Snape would ever got it in his head to treat Draco in 
the same way he does Harry then Lucius would be in his office so fast, 
Snape would not know what hit him.  

And we also see that Snape did not make an ever lasting impression on 
Draco either now did he as Draco drops Snape like a brick in HBP so if 
Snape was really that good a teacher then why is he dropped without 
blinking twice? Might this be because he is as hollow as the wholes in 
a cheese? Would you think people would drop their other teachers as 
fast as Draco drops Snape? Would Harry drop Lupin if he would come in 
the same situation? No, what we actually see is that in a case of real 
need Harry even forgets about Snape and while McGonagall might be firm 
and not a teacher to rub the wrong way, Harry knows she would be there 
if he needed her and we see him go to her many times not just as his 
head of house. Harry not revealing information at the end of HBP had 
nothing to do with him distrusting her but everything to do with his 
promise to DD. 

I strongly believe that Snape's dislikes of Neville go way beyond 
Neville being a bad student in his class, just like his hatred for 
Harry goes way beyond Harry just being another student. I personally 
think he dislikes or even hates Neville because if LV had just made a 
different choice then Snape would have never been in this mess. JMHO 

Snape's knowledge about the subject of potions might indeed be 
something every student could learn a lot from but Snape the person, no 
one wants to stick their neck out for and without DD trust in him, no 
one would ever have trusted Snape and that is saying something. 

To keep within his own words "Knowledge isn't everything". 

JMHO

Dana