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

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> Alla:
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> Did Snape want to teach? Oh for a while I thought that maybe he would not mind teaching advanced students seminar, that is before he started teaching DADA that is. We all know that one subject where Harry is meant to be brilliant is DADA. And not just because JKR said so, first and foremost I see it in canon and did Snape praise him once?
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Potioncat:
Harry is brilliant in DADA?
Really?
I think he's very lucky, and he has a sense of what to do, yet he struggled with the spells and counter spells just as much as anyone else. He even had a more difficult time learning some of the spells that others did. So I wouldn't say he's brilliant. Is that JKR said?

Harry's a darn good DADA teacher though. Better than any of the others we saw, including Lupin.

Alla:
> Yes, Harry talked back at that lesson (yay)no I still think that Harry should have gotten his well deserved dues for the method of defending the Dementors even if it is different from what Snape knows and able to do.

Potioncat:
I just couldn't remember how the scene had played out, but I think we've sense covered it.

Alla:
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> What I would have been really interested in seeing is how Snape would have graded Harry and Hermione and other Gryffindors at the end of the year.
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Potioncat:
Yep, that would have been interesting.

Alla: 
> As an aside, I am sure we talked about it before, but I can't help but love how brilliant some of JKR's clues were about some things including Snape's loyalties. Contrary to Fake!Moody he never demonstrates dark curses on spiders or anybody else, he just shows pictures.
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Potioncat:
Just wanted to acknowledge that too. I think the whole ferret scene between Crouch!Moody and Draco was an eye opener once we all had a chance to realise who was really bouncing Draco. How many of us slapped our foreheads and said, "How did I miss that!"

As for Snape--it was the very fact that he was so horrible to Harry, yet was protecting him--that really caught my attention back in book one.