First lesson WAS: Re: Marietta, was Slytherin's Reputation

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 185869

> Alla:
> > 
> > Come now, don't keep us in suspense :-). I would love to read 
another 
> > scene where he is asking questions **first** year students, who 
had 
> no 
> > homework yet whatsoever and for some of them no knowledge of 
magic 
> yet 
> > whatsoever.
> >
> 
> Zara:
> I'd likewise love to read the scene where Snape assigned homework 
to 
> the sixth yearsd over the summer. <g> Hermione had read a sixth 
year 
> text and picked up a bit of sixth year DADA curriculum, presumably 
> because she planned to impress Slughorn with her knowledge in DADA. 
> Certainly not because the actual DADA professor, Snape, assigned it 
to 
> her.
>


Alla:

So that *is* the scene you meant. Okay then no I do not see them as 
the same at all. Because I think it is much more reasonable to expect 
sixth years who had DADA for several years to pick up some extra 
knowledge, at least theoretical of the magic they never done 
(presumably), but definitely saw in the WW.

Not that I would expect everybody to look non verbal spells of 
course, but as I said just seems more reasonable to me that somebody 
will see teachers doing one or another nonverbal spell and may just 
be curious to figure out what it is they are dealing with. Heck 
Dumbledore presumably does non verbal magic during the end of the 
first year feast. I would not be surprised if somebody besides 
Hermione got curious.

NOT the first years muggleborns who just only learned that magic 
exists and had to deal with Snape's questioning.

And of course there is another difference to me in this scene - 
Snape does ask a student who wants to answer. But that is a secondary 
difference to me, the main one is that they are sixth years now who 
had DADA for many years and just may pick a bit of extra knowledge.

Montavilla47:
<SNIP>
Because
if not, then Snape is either a buffoon (like the principal in Ferris
Bueller's Day Off), or the living embodiment of that flayed baby under
the bench, so twisted and stymied by pain that he's incapable of
anything... <SNIP>

Alla:

If the shoe fits


Potioncat:
<SNIP>
(Besides, if it really were Geoff, I might have to admit that what
all of us are really doing is trying to explain the motivation for
Snape being such a Berk--and no, there isn't any real excuse for
treating an 11-year-old like this.)

Alla:

LOLOLOLOL. Dying laughing here.  Seriously, that is why I love you 
dear.