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

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No: HPFGUIDX 185877

Lealess:
<SNIP>
Snape remarked, "Our new -- celebrity." If my
teacher had make Snape's comment, it is possible that other students
would have sympathized with me, rather than viewed me as an oddity. I
might have been uncomfortable, but I wouldn't have been ready to judge
the teacher as unfair based on that one remark. I didn't hate my
first (or almost every other) teacher based on the joke.

Where I part ways with Harry (and Ron) is that I never would have
raised my eyebrows to Snape's Potions speech. That was disrespectful
and ... having been a teacher, it would have made me wonder just who
these students were. They would have drawn my attention. I would
have wanted to correct their perception that they could disregard my
lessons, or worse, disrupt my class.<SNIP>

Alla:

It seems to me that you are parting ways with Harry and Ron right 
from the beginning. You seem to give teacher a pass for that remark, 
but would not give them a pass for response which could be just 
possibly response to that remark and not necessarily to speech itself?

Having studied to be a teacher (not working as one, but spending lots 
of time helping with kids), having had a family member for a teacher, 
I may have just taken a long hard look upon myself and try to see how 
my emotions got a run of me and if I cannot control them, at least 
not to show them, I may have no business teaching this boy.

As Susan said, I like when teachers earn respect and not just demand 
one.

Obviously my remarks are about hypothetically being in Snape's place 
and have nothing to do with you as a teacher.

Lealess:
I'm sure Snape's (or other teachers') expectations of Harry were not
impartial. Snape's emotional response to Harry was no doubt complex
and probably not even something he was consciously aware of. Just
because Snape was an adult did not mean he could control his emotions
(as Flitwick couldn't). Snape tried too hard to suppress them,
perhaps because they were so strong.<SNIP>

Alla:

I see no evidence that he attempted to control his emotions at all in 
that scene. Flitwick seems to me to try very hard to not take it upon 
the boy and ended up bursting out.

JMO,

Alla