We also disagree about the things you list as reasons for this entitlement, oryx_leucoryx. You see someone going out of his way to help and save everyone, I see a man doing what any decent, responsible teacher or indeed adult should do. The exceptional would have been if he had not done any of those things.
Then I wonder what your view of all the other teachers at Hogwarts is. Because nobody else responded to the egg's screams (except Filch who was already up and about doing his rounds).
And several teachers do much to endanger students. The most obvious is Remus who knows he has a dangerous condition, knows Severus works extra to help him be safe, and Remus plays head games with Severus about taking the potion, eventually leaving it to the last moment and not taking it at all - but going out on the grounds, where he ends up endangering people, including 3 students.
Or Hagrid who has students care for illegally bred organisms with unknown traits (over the year they become known and dangerous traits - students endure burns in his class).
But let's look at Minerva: To teach students that being out after curfew in dangerous times is irresponsible she sends them to serve detention in the Forbidden Forest where a unicorn killer is about. Very sensible. And when Neville supposedly endangers people by leaving the Gryffindor common room passwords about she goes balistic, and completely ignoring the fact that he left the passwords *beyond* the common room portrait - it was accessible to those who already had a way past the portrait. That Sirius got the passwords meant he had a collaborator inside Gryffindor Tower - but does anyone investigate who that is?
And of course the worst is Dumbledore who is using the school as a trap for supervillains and as training ground for his hero and future soldiers, while constantly endangering innocents.
How does Severus compare to other teachers in being a responsible adult?
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Date: 2009-08-13 04:23 am (UTC)Then I wonder what your view of all the other teachers at Hogwarts is. Because nobody else responded to the egg's screams (except Filch who was already up and about doing his rounds).
And several teachers do much to endanger students. The most obvious is Remus who knows he has a dangerous condition, knows Severus works extra to help him be safe, and Remus plays head games with Severus about taking the potion, eventually leaving it to the last moment and not taking it at all - but going out on the grounds, where he ends up endangering people, including 3 students.
Or Hagrid who has students care for illegally bred organisms with unknown traits (over the year they become known and dangerous traits - students endure burns in his class).
But let's look at Minerva: To teach students that being out after curfew in dangerous times is irresponsible she sends them to serve detention in the Forbidden Forest where a unicorn killer is about. Very sensible.
And when Neville supposedly endangers people by leaving the Gryffindor common room passwords about she goes balistic, and completely ignoring the fact that he left the passwords *beyond* the common room portrait - it was accessible to those who already had a way past the portrait. That Sirius got the passwords meant he had a collaborator inside Gryffindor Tower - but does anyone investigate who that is?
And of course the worst is Dumbledore who is using the school as a trap for supervillains and as training ground for his hero and future soldiers, while constantly endangering innocents.
How does Severus compare to other teachers in being a responsible adult?
More later.