Snape's Psychology: WAS: More thoughts on the Elder Wand subplot - Owner?

[jkoney65]

No: HPFGUIDX 187499

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at ...> wrote:
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> > Fame is fickle. Harry couldn't even keep fellow students believing in him, let alone the wizarding world. His influence would not have stood up to the feelings that people had for Snape.
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> Pippin:
> The students didn't spontaneously stop believing in Harry. They were misled by a sophisticated PR campaign orchestrated by the Ministry and the Daily Prophet. That same machinery is now in the hands of Kingsley Shacklebolt. He's not  going to let people think that their beloved Headmaster was murdered on his watch.

jkoney:
It sure seemed like the students stop believing in Harry his second year when he spoke parseltounge. Also they didn't seem to believe him his fourth year when he said he didn't enter the TWT.

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> jkoney:
> > A teacher who is unfair, insults and berates his students is not a good teacher.
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> Pippin:
> It's not me you'd have to convince. It's Headmistress McGonagall (according to ToBtB) and the Hogwarts Board of Governors. We don't know much about the board except that they didn't vote out Lucius Malfoy as a member until he resorted to blackmail. But I'd expect they're just as devoted to fairness and equality as any other wizarding institution <veg>
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> We know what the Ministry considers an excellent teacher. It's one with a higher than normal pass rate. Which Snape had, not surprising since most of the other teachers were less demanding. And when it comes to insulting and berating students, it's a technique Snape must have learned from Minerva herself.

jkoney:
As I said upthread, I doubt his former students would want to subject their children to his tactics.

Compared to Snape who insults and berates any student who isn't in his house whether they are intelligent or not, Minerva is an amateur.