[ SECRET POST #2737 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2737 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I love Snape. He is my favorite. He is the reason I gave the series a chance past the first book.

That being said, I'm utterly confident he would have ended up as abusive or nearly so as his own father had been. Not from wanting to, but because, aside from Lily, most everything Snape was ever exposed to seemed to be of negative and/or demoralizing influence, and he himself possessed an inherently dickish nature. He had no chance. The best outcome possible for Snape would have been being a hermit for the rest of his life while researching outlandishly complex potions. He shouldn't have been instructing anyone. If he had been given brilliant students, he still would have found fault. He's the type who probably would have begrudged anyone who got his tasks completed expertly and found a way to discredit them anyhow.

[(Anonymous)]

The best outcome possible for Snape would have been being a hermit for the rest of his life while researching outlandishly complex potions. He shouldn't have been instructing anyone. If he had been given brilliant students, he still would have found fault.

He'd have done okay, maybe, if he taught through a correspondence course with high-level students who happened to work with dragons and thestrals for a living, and were therefore unmoved by scathing howlers every second week. Beyond that ... so not his calling in life. Which wasn't necessarily his fault, it was teaching or else after the end of the first war, but still. Hogwarts has to have the worst hiring practices.

[(Anonymous)]

To be honest, as much as I am not a huge fan of Snape, nothing that he does would be all that out of the ordinary for Victorian boarding schools, or at least out of the ordinary in Victorian school stories. And that's where more or less all of Hogwarts as an educational institution comes from. Snape is the dickhead teacher in the classic Victorian school story.

So Hogwarts' hiring practices aren't so much bad as 100 years out of date. The problem is that the way the story changed as it went along means that we take it much more seriously in retrospect.