Dragons, Produced and Tickled, and Other Pleasantries

[nrenka]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Barry Arrowsmith" 
<arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:

> With the professor? Or were they disseminating their own ignorance?
> There's a difference.

Yes, they have rousing arguments with the professor over subjects.  
Sometimes even people in the sciences *gasp* disagree and work the 
issues out.  They're typically decent at being diplomatic about it, 
too.

And it's not that different of a situation from something like the 
sonata theory seminar, where things turned into student seek-and-
destroy on any weak arguments anyone (the professor most of all) 
threw out.  It's not 'just' subjective, but going into why is 
probably more of a pain in the ass than anyone here wants.
 
> I once disputed with a biochemistry lecturer - got banned from the 
> class for 3 months. It makes passing that exam very tough indeed. 
> Text books never seem to cover the apparently minor but in reality 
> very critical details.

Maybe I should have made it clear that I was thinking of classes in 
the seminar level and style, not the lecture and regurgitate format.

> Authority? In GP? It was Sirius that was claiming that he had 
> authority, much good that it did him, or are you speaking more 
> generally?

More generally.  In the classroom Snape gets to wield the whole "I am 
teacher, so shut up and sit down" factor, even when a student is 
trying to inform him of the objective situation in the class.  No, 
Sirius' "This is my house" isn't impressive, either.  They're both 
being idiots in that scene.

-Nora has always wondered what Snape and Dumbledore's more private 
conversations were like, and whether JKR has actually written out the 
entire text of what Hagrid overheard.  Maybe Snape was finally 
getting a little stroppy?