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[Harry Potter] What does Snape have against wand waving and incantations?

So, in Harry's first potion lesson, Snape says "There will be no foolish wand-waving or silly incantations in this class.". It's an atmospheric line except, you know, *what the fuck is he talking about*?  


He's a *wizard.* He's in a wizard school. He's a member of a culture based *entirely* around wand-waving and incantations. Basically every single thing he owns works via wand waving and incantations. He works at an institute of wand-waving and incantations, in an economy based around wand waving and incantations, in a society who determines social status almost entirely based on skill at wand waving and incantations.  


 It's not like he's some weird Luddite equivalent- we know he uses wand magic, and even makes up his own spells. And he's a 30-something halfblood with a pureblood mother, it's not like he's new to the whole thing.  


So, this line is at best the equivalent of your P.E. teacher randomly starting a class with "fuck textbooks" and more like them leading with "fuck writing as a concept". It's a really weird thing to say, basically. What was with the sudden, out of nowhere disdain for the fundamental underpinning of his entire society right there?
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Potions are serious . Potions are dangerous. There will be no wand waving and Incantations because they can cause the potions to go horribly wrong. Like a science class. There will be no horseplay or something will explode and  someone is going to hospital and then you will fail this class.