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Title: An Unruly Potions Class 03 May 2009 5:38 pm
Reviewer: Quynce (Signed) [Report This]
    Great chapter! The classroom's reaction to Harry was great: just the kind of trouble I remember from school. I think Harry handled the situation very well (except for believing those two troublemakers, and he fixed that). I like the Re-Do spell-- applied once in the proper manner, it can fix assignments for the rest of the semester. Thank goodness I don't teach children, even so, I've seen bits and pieces of this in several classrooms. I'm looking forward to the promised angst.

    Author's Response: I tried to keep it realistic, and some of what those kids did are things that my students did to me when I first started teaching.  That spell can fix a lot.  I should have the next chapter up soon!
Title: An Unruly Potions Class 03 May 2009 4:19 pm
Reviewer: Pri-c (Anonymous) [Report This]
    love it
    hope that u update soon....

    Author's Response: Thanks, I'll be updating very soon!
Title: An Unruly Potions Class 03 May 2009 11:01 am
Reviewer: Ponytail Goddess (Signed) [Report This]
    Hehehe...I enjoyed this. I had these experiences too. Harry's first lesson was going much too well right at the beginning. I should have known you had that sort of chaos planned, lol. "Why do we have to learn this?" is the one that makes me the craziest. Good grief!

    Anyways, this was my favorite part of this chapter:

    "The Re-do spell."

    "I never heard of that before. How do you cast it?"

    "Hand the paper back to the student and say "Re-do this, so I can actually read it." Severus replied. "It works quite well."

    Hilarious! Good work!

    -P.G.

    Author's Response:

    yes, i wanted to lull him at first, because generally the kids behave for the very beginning of class . . .then they start plotting and misbehaving.

    I hate that one too.  I always got "But nobody reads this anymore, so why do we have to?" Or when we were doing Shakespeare "But nobody cares about these dumb people, so why should I?"

    Drove me crazy. 

    That Re-Do spell works like a charm, LOL!

Title: An Unruly Potions Class 03 May 2009 8:00 am
Reviewer: trust severus spy (Signed) [Report This]
    Hey, Snapegirl, excellent chapter! Nice to see Severus being supportive of Harry's teaching efforts. One (multiple) spelling error, though: the class list is the "roll" (as in enroll).

    Hope our guys can find Dumbledore!

    Author's Response: Thanks, I fixed it.  My WP has this automatic corrector on it and sometimes it drives me crazy.  If it doesn;t recognize the way I've used a word, it substitutes one in its place.  It did that with another story, changing the word 'empath" to "empathy" repeatedly.  It did the same with this and I forgot to check it again after I posted it.  Dumbledore is incognito for right now.
Title: An Unruly Potions Class 03 May 2009 5:19 am
Reviewer: snarky Beth (Signed) [Report This]
    This was so funny, I couldn't believe how horrible Harry's first class was! Those kids were nuts, trying to hex each other right in the classroom. Sheesh. I'm Glad Severus figured out Witherspoon was framed and that one of the true troublemakers got detention. I only wish Malfoy had been caught too, what a snot, blackmailing a little kid like that!

    Though I’ve never been a teacher, I can sympathize with the illegible handwriting! When I was in elementary through junior high school, two of the boys in my class had the worst chicken-scratch. I swear it was so bad, that nowadays I can decipher just about anything! No joke :)

    Author's Response:

    They really were, and some of them really ARE that bad.  I had one of the worst classes in history one year.  Severus is smart and he knows his Slytherins, so he could figure out what happened.  And it probably happened to him once too.  Malfoy will eventually pay for that piece of work. 

    I was continually mazed by how many kids couldn't write neatly, when i was in school, we got a grade for penmanship, and it counted as a fourth of our English grade, so we were carefully to learn how to at least PRINT neatly, as well as write in cursive. 

    But now kids type all their assignments, so that skill will be lost, I assume.  But at least the teachers don't need to go crazy any more trying to read something that looks like scribble.  The next chapter's coming in a few minutes.  Get ready for a major quarrel!

Title: An Unruly Potions Class 03 May 2009 4:55 am
Reviewer: jvalread (Signed) [Report This]
    Poor Harry! I knew there was a reason I wasn't a teracher. Although at one point I wanted to teach Spanish & French.

    Great chapter :-)

    Author's Response:

    Kids! They really CAN drive you over the edge. 

    I had  a hard enough time teaching English, so God only knows what I would have been like teaching a different language.  Though I might not have minded latin, since no one could correct your pronunciation too much.  But my cousin teaches Spanish to high school sophomores and doesn;t mind it . . .sometimes.

Title: An Unruly Potions Class 03 May 2009 4:39 am
Reviewer: DrSnape (Signed) [Report This]
    Poor Harry, looks like they ran him through the mill. But, guess it's to be expected. He did well though! Especially when he took points from both Houses. Loved it, as usual. can't wait till he gives Sirius hell.

    Author's Response:

    They did, but he survived!!

    He tried to be fair and it worked . . .well mostly.

    You won't be waiting anymore, because here it is!

Title: An Unruly Potions Class 03 May 2009 4:34 am
Reviewer: CrazyDragon (Signed) [Report This]
    ROFL! Sev's right--no firsties dies, the classroom (and the dungeons!) is in one piece--Harry did pretty well for his first time, especially for a fifteen-year-old. ::smirk::

    My condolences, on teaching 7th grade English...! O.O It's bad enough driving the little rug-rats to and from school, and doing bus evacuation classes twice a year with 'em (it's SO unfair they won't let us use duct-tape...)--I can't imagine trying to cram knowledge into reluctant little skulls every day! ::shivers::

    Author's Response:

    He did and Severus knows it. 

    I agree, I used to long to duct tape one little brat to his chair every period, he thought it was okay to go across the room and talk to his friend in the middle of my discussion group! It was really hard, that's why I'm not teaching right now! Plus in FL the pay was God awful!

Title: An Unruly Potions Class 03 May 2009 3:08 am
Reviewer: Judy (Signed) [Report This]
    Well, Harry certainly had an eyeopener for a first day! You protrayed that very well. I'm glad Severus was there to encourage him and he's still considering teaching as a career.

    Great job and can't wait for the next part.

    Author's Response: Thanks and I think harry will do well as a teacher, despite the mishaps the first day. 
Title: An Unruly Potions Class 02 May 2009 10:22 pm
Reviewer: Lori Oaks (Anonymous) [Report This]
    I understand the homework thing completely. I don't have to deal with essays much as they are not often given for Geometry, but grading 9th & 10th grade proofs are just as bad, I just can't understand their logic sometimes.

    Great story by the way. This is one of the better "creature-fics" I've read. Keep it up!

    Author's Response: Thanks.  I so hated homework grading, and my brother-in-law is  amath teacher and he complains all the time about the proofs his kids hand in, says it's like reading Chinese, sometimes, the way they write and make up things.  Thanks for reading!

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