Teaching Potions

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 33015

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "judyserenity" <judyshapiro at e...> 
wrote:

> Elizabeth Dalton wrote:
asking why the students weren't prepared with potions against 
the dragons in the first task..

   Because none of them were supposed to know there  *were* 
dragons in the first task! Showing up prepared with an 
anti-dragon potion would be a bit much, I think.
 Quite a few potions seem to be available commercially: not only 
Skele-Gro but Sleekeezy, and Mrs. Skower's. Probably  Judy is 
right: the potions curriculum has been made obsolete by mass 
production and is only interesting to grinds like Hermione and 
hobbyists like the Twins, who make an aging potion to try and 
cross Dumbledore's age line. Thus Snape's never ending 
bitterness about the dunderheads he has to teach. 

Judy:
  I have to say, Potions class remind me *so much* of Organic 
> Chemistry lab from my pre-med days, and I really wonder if JK 
Rowling 
> ever took that class.  

She did say that Snape was based on a chemistry teacher of 
hers.

Pippin