[HPforGrownups] Re: OoP - Occlumency - A case for Evil!Snape?

[Robert A. Rosenberg]

No: HPFGUIDX 66897

At 16:05 +0000 on 07/02/2003, darrin_burnett wrote about 
[HPforGrownups] Re: OoP - Occlumency - A case for Evil!Snap:

>I found it telling that during the Potions OWL, when Snape wasn't in
>the room, both Harry AND Neville showed an aptitutde for making
>potions. What does that say about your teaching skills when the
>students do better when you're gone?

Given his behavior in Potions Classes during the practicals (where he 
is always lurking over their shoulders and critiquing them 
negatively) his absence during the OWL Tests only would seem to point 
at them not needing to divert their attention to reacting to him and 
thus allow them to concentrate on the test. The fact that they 
succeed means that he taught them adequately and that it is only his 
partisanship towards his own house and his bias that has reduced 
their performance levels.

Note: I am only starting on the book this evening so I am responding 
to the comment above without knowing of what support there is in the 
5th book for their performance.