But all the same, it will only show our ignorance. If we were his student in class, it would make him angry, but since we are trying to humiliate him, it will only strengthen his position.
Harry Potter and the Scabbard of Excalibur [AU]
TaliesinSkye
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Hmm. The best aim might be to make him feel like the students he lambasts. So what does that best?
But the magic might not recognise those changes as mistakes depending how the magic works, Pulse snape will know he is not making any actual mistakes meaning it won't sting at all or not as much
The turning his close pink will defiantly sting though so we should go with the sure bet
who do you think has the other house perks
also forgot to put this down before but yaaaa no gnosis spending this time let's make harry a dragon
The turning his close pink will defiantly sting though so we should go with the sure bet
who do you think has the other house perks
also forgot to put this down before but yaaaa no gnosis spending this time let's make harry a dragon
For Snape to be really deeply hurt by this, our comments must be truthful. After all, Snape never criticizes perfect potions. No matter how unpleasant the person who cooked them was. Yes, he can find fault with the little things, but for him it's not the little things.
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[X] Plan Snape wears only pink.
[X] Howling Pot- Work a runic enchantment on Snape's cauldron, enumerating the flaws in any potion he makes in a synthetic voice, similarly to a Howler. Perhaps include a catalogue of insults to match, e.g. "You added [six drops] [too much] [aqua regia], you [utter buffoon.]
eh, I wonder if we could do both at once...
[X] Howling Pot- Work a runic enchantment on Snape's cauldron, enumerating the flaws in any potion he makes in a synthetic voice, similarly to a Howler. Perhaps include a catalogue of insults to match, e.g. "You added [six drops] [too much] [aqua regia], you [utter buffoon.]
eh, I wonder if we could do both at once...
TaliesinSkye
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I wonder if we could make something that somehow criticized his teaching. "You [failed] to instruct your students in how to [chop snake fangs] you [absolute buffoon]!" "The student you [lambasted] was [just following written instructions] you [mockery of an educator]!" "Today's lesson was absent any [instruction] or [supportive reassurance] you [incompetent fool]!"
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Oo that would hurt more
And still it's not scary for him at all. He doesn't want to teach this subject, so he has no teaching pride. He thinks all his students are hopeless idiots, so for him it will sound like this.
Snape, why couldn't you teach the trolls to dance ballet?
For him, this will be a completely unfounded claim.
TaliesinSkye
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I think it can work because he despises incompetence, and to have his own incompetence at any task truthfully pointed out will gall him. He might not care for his students, but he's a perfectionist.
TaliesinSkye
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Here's my proposal, and thanks to everyone who's pitched in with ideas so far:
[X] Plan Teacher, Teach Thyself
-[X] Write-in - By your talents combined, and some help from a bit of Snape's voice and caustic personality borrowed from a magical photo, you'll create an enchantment that reacts to predictable inadequacies in Snape's teaching style with cutting comments laying bare his inadequacy as a teacher. It will only go off occasionally, but together you'll put it on half the objects in the Potions classroom and make it very annoying to remove. Some samples: "You [failed] to instruct your students in how to [properly chop snake fangs] you [absolute buffoon]!" "The student you [lambasted] was [just following written instructions] you [mockery of an educator]!" "Today's lesson was absent any [instruction] or [supportive reassurance] you [incompetent fool]!"
-[X] Neville - He'll probably agree; it's Friday, he's got nothing better to do, and it sounds like an exciting way to spend the afternoon.
[X] Plan Teacher, Teach Thyself
-[X] Write-in - By your talents combined, and some help from a bit of Snape's voice and caustic personality borrowed from a magical photo, you'll create an enchantment that reacts to predictable inadequacies in Snape's teaching style with cutting comments laying bare his inadequacy as a teacher. It will only go off occasionally, but together you'll put it on half the objects in the Potions classroom and make it very annoying to remove. Some samples: "You [failed] to instruct your students in how to [properly chop snake fangs] you [absolute buffoon]!" "The student you [lambasted] was [just following written instructions] you [mockery of an educator]!" "Today's lesson was absent any [instruction] or [supportive reassurance] you [incompetent fool]!"
-[X] Neville - He'll probably agree; it's Friday, he's got nothing better to do, and it sounds like an exciting way to spend the afternoon.
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Before himself, he justifies this mediocrity and stupidity of his students. In the end, even the greatest teacher will not be able to pass on the teaching to someone who does not want it.
In order for this to hurt his pride, criticism must come from an equal authority or from someone whose competence he considers equal to his own.
Snape has had people telling him he is a horrible teach for years remember we were not the first people to complain about him and he has not changed a bit so I think it's safe to assume he would not care if he heard about how bad of a teacher he is
Snapes pride will not be hurt because he does not see anything he does as bad or incompetent, In his mind all of his bullying is fair and valid and any failure in his classes is because all of his students are idiots
Snape is not self aware enough to find fault in his teaching
The turning his robs pink or some thing like that is much more likely to work
Snapes pride will not be hurt because he does not see anything he does as bad or incompetent, In his mind all of his bullying is fair and valid and any failure in his classes is because all of his students are idiots
Snape is not self aware enough to find fault in his teaching
The turning his robs pink or some thing like that is much more likely to work
TaliesinSkye
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I think you're missing the real thrust of it; by pointing out specific things he's done wrong, the enchantment would undermine his time-worn rationalization to himself that students fail because they're incompetent. Instead, it would be very hard to long deny that students can't do things correctly if they're never instructed in the first place.
And failing to even instruct them in the first place is so obviously incompetent that I don't think even Snape will be able to blind himself entirely to the criticism.
And failing to even instruct them in the first place is so obviously incompetent that I don't think even Snape will be able to blind himself entirely to the criticism.
For many years, Snape could not be embarrassed by Dumbledore or anyone from Hogwarts, so he would not be able to. Snape will think that this is another stupid joke of disgruntled students who know how to teach better until they start doing it themselves.
Speaking of the inability to instruct.
Snape is a genius of potions and he is a man who does not even want to put himself in the place of others.
He believes that he explains clearly and thoroughly, but what is clear and clear to him for students can be vague and formless. He probably suspects that he's doing something wrong, but he doesn't care. And this indifference makes him a really bad teacher.
Snape is a genius of potions and he is a man who does not even want to put himself in the place of others.
He believes that he explains clearly and thoroughly, but what is clear and clear to him for students can be vague and formless. He probably suspects that he's doing something wrong, but he doesn't care. And this indifference makes him a really bad teacher.
Yes he will because he has been doing this for YEARS and nothing has changed
If something like this could ever have worked Snape would have improved years ago
Snape is incredibly stupid about these things
We could.. devise ways of keeping sneaking in Sleekeazy on Snape when he's unaware. Force him to walk around in amazing bishounen lustrous hair. Enchant his robes so they are spotless and blows dramatically in the wind.
And he keeps finding love confessions from secret admirers.
He might notice his clothes are pink but chances are the hair thing might not always be noticable by him. And he might not know how to turn it back to their greasy self.
I want to try a psychological avenue with him - attractive people are perceived to be better due to the halo effect, and his disposition could subtly improve with everyone treating and thinking him better.. so he tries to be nicer?
Remember he's a legilimens. He knows what the student base think of him and treats them the same in a viscous cycle.
[X] Plan Professor Snape's Magic Makeover
-[X] Devise a scheme to keep sneaking in Sleekeazy into Snape's hair unawares, and other beautifying potions and charms. Rune his entire wardrobe to be spotless and subtly gleam and sparkle catching the light, to always dramatically billow in the wind. Soon after, he keeps recieving sincere love confessions from secret admirers.
[X] Neville and Malfoy
And he keeps finding love confessions from secret admirers.
He might notice his clothes are pink but chances are the hair thing might not always be noticable by him. And he might not know how to turn it back to their greasy self.
I want to try a psychological avenue with him - attractive people are perceived to be better due to the halo effect, and his disposition could subtly improve with everyone treating and thinking him better.. so he tries to be nicer?
Remember he's a legilimens. He knows what the student base think of him and treats them the same in a viscous cycle.
[X] Plan Professor Snape's Magic Makeover
-[X] Devise a scheme to keep sneaking in Sleekeazy into Snape's hair unawares, and other beautifying potions and charms. Rune his entire wardrobe to be spotless and subtly gleam and sparkle catching the light, to always dramatically billow in the wind. Soon after, he keeps recieving sincere love confessions from secret admirers.
[X] Neville and Malfoy
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Baby steps, it wouldn't change anything overnight. But it's a start. Mostly I just want him to deal with people thinking he's attractive for change when he casually legilimens people around. It's the best kind of prank that works in a deep level. Good behavior compounds on itself just like bad behavior.
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An idea comes to mind to mess with Snape. No idea how good/viable it is, but I figure I'll lay it out:
Going off of the earlier idea to enchant Snape's Cauldron with some kind of pre-recorded phrases, what if we instead enchant something and load it up with a bunch of pre-recorded reassurances/words of encouragement, to be played if it detects Snape taking away House Points? I imagine Snape wouldn't like his criticisms of students to be undercut with stuff like "You'll get it next time!" or "Don't give up, I know you can do it!".
Going off of the earlier idea to enchant Snape's Cauldron with some kind of pre-recorded phrases, what if we instead enchant something and load it up with a bunch of pre-recorded reassurances/words of encouragement, to be played if it detects Snape taking away House Points? I imagine Snape wouldn't like his criticisms of students to be undercut with stuff like "You'll get it next time!" or "Don't give up, I know you can do it!".
Haha, I love it. Better yet if it's by Snape's voice, saying the most uncharacteristically kind things. Sirus and Peter would have a lot of fun formulating responses.
Let it not be restricted to just his cauldron though, and perhaps his entire classrooms. He could always vanish it.
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We want to make fun of Snape, not kill him. As soon as he hears the first words of approval uttered by his voice. Then the reverse closed reaction will begin, which will lead to the degradation of Snape's brain.
He will lie in the place where he heard it while blood slowly flows from his nose.
And yes, I'm not exaggerating.
Since we can't say what level of power we have and what we can do, here are excerpts from discord partially describing it. The main thing to remember is that two professors are helping us here.
Birdsie What effects can we do with astrology and runes?
Birdsie
You could almost definitely curse his entire classroom or office with a plethora of fascinating effects.
But pernicious, hard-to-remove curses cross over the line between pranking/bullying and outright vicious harassment.
Pettigrew and Sirius will veto anything too harmful
You could curse specific objects he owns
or curse his life in general in some specific manner
a lot of stuff, really
especially with two Professors helping
Is it possible to curse him so that the number of stupidities from others in his direction increases?
He always complained about the lack of intelligence in others
Birdsie
Yes, but you'd also be cursing other people as a consequence
Almost certainly Sirius won't allow this
unless you word it very innocently
but that's skeevy as hell
And what if we make sure that the stupidity of others was natural, they just committed it next to Snape or he himself was in the right place at the right time?
Birdsie
Verrrrry difficult to do
Maybe you could turn his favorite cauldron into a frog which he then has to kiss
Birdsie What effects can we do with astrology and runes?
Birdsie
You could almost definitely curse his entire classroom or office with a plethora of fascinating effects.
But pernicious, hard-to-remove curses cross over the line between pranking/bullying and outright vicious harassment.
Pettigrew and Sirius will veto anything too harmful
You could curse specific objects he owns
or curse his life in general in some specific manner
a lot of stuff, really
especially with two Professors helping
Is it possible to curse him so that the number of stupidities from others in his direction increases?
He always complained about the lack of intelligence in others
Birdsie
Yes, but you'd also be cursing other people as a consequence
Almost certainly Sirius won't allow this
unless you word it very innocently
but that's skeevy as hell
And what if we make sure that the stupidity of others was natural, they just committed it next to Snape or he himself was in the right place at the right time?
Birdsie
Verrrrry difficult to do
Maybe you could turn his favorite cauldron into a frog which he then has to kiss
Rolen von Keng
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[X] Neville and Malfoy
The beginning of Operation Befriend the French Git is a go!
The beginning of Operation Befriend the French Git is a go!