Teachers WAS:Re: SPOILERS: School Books

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 184235

> Potioncat:
> But he never knows, so where's the kick? I doubt he double checked 
> when he went back to his office. Now, maybe a few years later, when 
> he was preparing the first years' class... (That is, the DADA class 
> for the first years.)

Alla:

The kick IMO is for the reader of course in this situation. I am 
pleased that Snape is looking silly in all this more than anybody 
else IMO, whether he knows of it or not. He already got his dues for 
that class, as far as I am concerned - old lady in the dress, so  I 
just get to enjoy him looking silly, even if without character 
knowing.
 
> Potioncat:
> No surpise that I don't agree. I think that had he been the DADA 
> teacher he would have known the material. He wasn't there to teach 
> the class plan anyway. He was there for his own agenda. He fully 
> expected Hermione to pick up on Lupin's problem and tell Harry.
> 
> He was just being a little too full of himself. I think it became 
> JKR's little joke -- especially if she had made the "same" 
mistake.<SNIP>

Alla:

Does it matter though for that reason he did not know?  What I am 
trying to say is that you think that he did not know because he was 
being too full of himself, right? I think he did not know, just 
because he did not know. The point we agree on is that he was wrong, 
right? So any interpetation can be valid - yours or mine and none can 
be disproved.


Potioncat:
> That's why I referred to him as teacher who does know it all, not a 
> know-it-all teacher. There's a big difference.

Alla:

I see no difference ;)
 
> > Alla:
> > He is OMG not a perfect teacher.
> 
> Potioncat:
> No he isn't. But who is?  ;-)
>

Alla:

Nobody, I will just dispute the claim that he is. I've seen the 
attempts to put him on pedestal as teacher who never makes mistakes 
way too often, so I just disagree. There are no perfect teachers in 
Hogwarts as far as I am concerned. Even my favorites Minerva and 
Lupin made mistakes, but that does not mean that Snape gets to be 
near them in my mind as a good teacher. Minerva was being an **sshole 
to Neville several times  and I am not happy with her for that.

Lupin was? Come to think of it, I do not know what mistakes Lupin 
made as a teacher. So, yeah he is as far as I am concerned as 
**teacher**, not person of course comes very close to perfection.

Oh yes, he did not take his potion, but that I do not consider to be 
teaching mistake, more like personal one. :-)

JMO,

A;;a