Are Any of Your Real Life Teachers HP Characters?, Ever had a teacher that was a total "Snape"? |
 Jun 12 2006, 06:47 PM
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Professional Diagon Alley Window Shopper  Posts: 72 Joined: 8:50am July 22, 2005 Location: Southern California  |
One of the things that I've always loved about the Harry Potter series is the fact that while many of the teachers we've seen pass through Hogwarts hallowed halls are over-blown and comical, we can still see a lot of the characteristics of our own instructors in them. I've certainly had at least one Trelawney, and more than one McGonagall, but there's a wealth of teachers, (most of them former DADA) to choose from that we might be able to compare our own experiences to.
So, which of your teachers really remind you of a Hogwarts instructor, and why? Sorry if this has been posted before, but I looked and couldn't find anything like it. Cheers!!! GTScout (Steve) -------------------- “The Dark Arts are many, varied, ever-changing and eternal. Fighting them is like fighting a many-headed monster, which, each time a neck is severed, sprouts a head even fiercer and cleverer than before. You are fighting that which is unfixed, mutating, indestructible.”
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Jun 15 2006, 05:47 PM
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Just Through the Brick Wall Posts: 6 Joined: 8:43am June 15, 2006 Location: Netherlands |
I used to name almost all of my teachers at Highschool with HP-characters.
My gymnastics teacher was a bit of a Hagrid, because he was really nice to everybody and was kinda big (from my point of view) and round  My religion teacher (I'm not sure they teach that class in the UK or US or anywhere outside of the Netherlands but since I went to a Christian school you get to learn about other religions such as Buddhism and Judaism) was a kind of Remus Lupin. He was a really, really good teacher and we always had lots of fun with him. But apart from that he was also kinda wise and intelligent, which I believe is Remus Lupin also... Than we had our own kind of Filch  He was our concierge and was kinda smelly, if you know what I mean. Although he didn't have a cat, he loved to give detention! And our Libarian was a real Ms. Pince! She kicks you out when you eat or when you go to non-school related sites or send emails! And she is a real bookworm to 
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Jun 15 2006, 10:20 PM
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Cauldron Bottom Measurer Posts: 139 Joined: 1:27pm July 11, 2005 |
Glad to see I'm not the only one that has compared their teachers to Hogwarts Professors!
Our school librarian is definitely a Madam Pince. She yells at you over every little thing and is always hovering about, trying to make sure you do absolutely nothing wrong. My physics teacher is a Trelawney, she's crazy and not such a great teacher. My government teacher is a Hagrid. He's big and loveable and friendly. You can also walk over him a little bit because he's so nice. --------------------  "It is our choices that show who we truly are, far more than our abilities." "If you are holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be waiting for a very long time." |
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Jun 16 2006, 09:37 AM
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Cauldron Bottom Measurer Posts: 136 Joined: 6:10am May 9, 2006 Location: Teabag Central |
Not quite teachers, but there was a remarkable correlation between the Hogwarts professors and some of my tutors at library school (which shall remain nameless... just in case!):
Cataloguing tutor = Snape - he had that sneery delivery down to a T Collection management tutor = Gilderoy Lockhart - boy did he love himself. And if you listened to him he'd done every library job possible. And a horribly large number of the female students were in love with him (not me though!) IT tutor = Ludo Bagman - tried ever so hard to be cool and popular but was actually a bit of an idiot Scary how these people do exist... Although, as a librarian myself, I have to say I'm disappointed to hear there are so many real life Madam Pince's among the librarians of this world. We're not all like that, honest!!! -------------------- Fairy tales are more than true. Not because they tell us dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten. ~ G.K. Chesterton
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Jun 16 2006, 10:54 AM
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Cauldron Bottom Measurer Posts: 103 Joined: 6:36am June 8, 2006 Location: Waiting for book 7  |
We have grrrrrrreat teachers in our school!!
 (If you don't count our Geography teacher who has come over as a substitute,she has got Lockhart's pride,and has Snape's habbit of 'choosing her favourites'....She dopes not know a thing abut Geography...idiot,I'm waiting for the day when she'll leave,I'll party like mad)Our Chemistry teacher's like Lupin,brilliant,clever ,understanding and just tooooo good,I love her!!Our librarian has a bit of of McGonnagal in her  I'm so sorry for those silly errors  .
This post has been edited by Smartaps: Jun 16 2006, 10:52 AM -------------------- "I admit freely & without hypocrisy that I am a great man"-Hercule Poirot
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 Jun 20 2006, 11:45 PM
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Being Eaten by the Pea Soup Posts: 26 Joined: 3:00pm December 27, 2005 Location: Somewhere over the rainbow |
Wow, I can't really think of that many of my teachers to compare with Hogwarts ones. Our math teacher could be a sort of Remus Lupin... but only because he's nice, and I like Lupin one HUNDRED times better than the math teacher. I'm not in love with my math teacher. *blushes*
I think one of my Homeroom teachers could have been a bit like McGonnagall... he was a bit of a kermudgeon sometimes, but really nice, though pretty strict. And every once in a while he'd really get into something, like dress up for Halloween, and everybody would be shocked. He was one of my favorites. The only teacher I have that I don't like was a Humanities guy... he is so annoying, because he will get mad at you, then tell a joke, an get mad at you for laughing. He is so confusing! And once he kept us in 10 minutes into break, I didn't like that.  Also, my mother thought he was good-looking, so I just sort of HAD to not like him.
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Jun 21 2006, 12:40 AM
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Professional Diagon Alley Window Shopper Posts: 75 Joined: 12:35am April 21, 2006 Location: New York City |
Lets see... I did have a 'Snape' once, but it was a female teacher, she was not an Umbridge, but a 'Snape.'
The best teacher I ever had was a World History teacher, I can't explain how much fun I had in that class and how much I learned. I can't really compare him to any other Harry Potter teacher. He was what a teacher was suppose to be. He gave lots of work, but boy could he teach. So much memories. -------------------- PotterCast: the best Harry Potter Podcast!!
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Jun 21 2006, 10:39 AM
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Selling Illegal Items at Borgin and Burkes Posts: 2,806 Joined: 7:59am June 6, 2006 |
QUOTE(GTScout @ Jun 12 2006, 11:47 PM) [snapback]851872[/snapback] So, which of your teachers really remind you of a Hogwarts instructor, and why? I have a civics teacher who is a cross between Umbridge and madam Pince. She's false & simpering but really very nasty and catty underneath it all, and the stuff she teaches is absolute bogus so I'll throw in a bit of Trelawny in there too cause they're both frauds. I have a business teacher like McGonagall, she seemed really strict and scary to begin with but is really a softy. My science teacher is rather like Binns(obviously though she's not a ghost) but she just drones on and on, and no ones paying attention and she just keeps going, she still remains adamant that it's excess carbon Dioxide in the class room that has us all dozy that we're not bored --------------------  |
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Jun 23 2006, 06:23 AM
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Eeylops Owl Cage Cleaner Posts: 224 Joined: 2:27am April 25, 2006 Location: Australia |
I had a teacher that had some Snape.
It was my year 11/12 Art teacher. If i knew how to spell her last name, i would freely name her. I did have a rather *nasty* nickname made from her last name that i think she may have heard though. But anyway. If Snape was a lady, i really dont think id like him very much. Because of this teacher i had. For some reason, she hated me. And i have no idea why. It didn't matter how well i did in class, she would always give me a 2 out of 10 (she marked EVERYTHING), and that, of course, resulted in my failure of that subject. But she would walk around the class and praise most of the other students, and then question me about the quality of mine. I admit that i wasn't *that* great at art, but i was alot better than other students. I always thought my work was average, while there were other students that were just great, and others that were complete rubbish. But i was always given the lowest mark. I remember vividly, she handed out our half yearly reports, and she wrote in my friends report that he would do much better if he didn't sit with my during class. One of my last artworks we had to do was a piece of our own, where we had to depict our feelings of school and our future at that time, and i decided to do a detailed drawing for mine (as it was my strongest artistic technique). But before i handed mine in, i got a big black marker, and wrote in big bold letters 2/10 and cirlced it over the top of it. It was my representation of how i felt about her stupid class and subject! --------------------  |
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Jun 23 2006, 11:14 AM
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Cauldron Bottom Measurer Posts: 106 Joined: 3:22pm January 1, 2006 Location: In Care for Magical Creatures - prodding a flobberworm |
I had a Snape as an I.T teacher in year 10. Ok i admit i was never the best student (hating everything to do with I.T lessons at the time) but there was no need for some of his comments!
The teacher was so sexist - whenever me and my mate (who was a guy) were talking or messing around, the teacher would pick on me - not joking EVERY time. Of course i pointed this out to him but that eventually made things worse. Once he even said "I'm going to eat you!" - i can't remember how this comment occured, all i know is that i was annoying him somehow and so he retaliated by saying this in a scarily serious voice. I was so taken aback i didn't know what to say so i just laughed in his face - he didn't like that at all!! Anyway he left at the end of the year and i've never seen him since then and that was 2 years ago now so HAPPY DAYS
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