CHAPTER DISCUSSION: Chamber of Secrets Chapter 18: Dobby's reward

[AmanitaMuscaria]

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "willsonteam" <willsonkmom at ...> wrote:
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> > I agree that he is not qualified to teach DADA or anything for that matter, however I think he *knows* DADA very well, based on his lesson in HBP if nothing else. 
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> Potioncat:
> I also think Snape knows DADA, and Dark Arts and cures?/treatments? for Dark injuries very well. He may not be so well versed on Dark Creatures (kappas, three headed dogs).
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> I would like to know if Snape ever wanted to teach. What do you think? I mean, I can argue it both ways, but I'm really not sure. 
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> Research or Healer would fit him I think.
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> We know Harry didn't agree with Snape about Defense against dementors, but do we know that Harry challenged Snape?
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> We also don't know what Snape taught and whether he was really simply avoiding teaching the Protonus charm. He needed his Patronus to be secret.
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AM: If JKR is telling the truth, and there are no further education establishments beyond Hogwarts, then teachers just teach, without any further instruction. So Harry or Ron or Lavender could, if someone hired them, just begin to take a class after leaving school. Then again, a few of my own teachers didn't seem to have learnt a lot from teaching instruction!
I don't know whether the thing with Kappas is meant to demonstrate Snape's ignorance, his arrogance, or perhaps that books aren't always right (as his annotations of his Potions book showed), but I'd love to know his alternative to dealing with Dementors. I don't suppose a doe would have gone down a storm in DE circles. I wonder what Lucius's Patronus would be, or Lord V's, if they had them ...