OoP(Spoilers) Snape as teacher

[Diana Williams]

No: HPFGUIDX 66940

>
> jsmithqwert wrote:
>
> > I agree about the whole talent thing.  Afterall, aren't difficult
> > potions only difficult to make because of so many instructions and
> > ingredients.  Anybody who can read and identify the reagents ought
> to
> > be able to make the most complex potion in the world.  It's just
> step-
> > by-step instructions.


If that were the case, I would be a master chef. <g>  I can certainly follow
a recipe in a recipe book, as can most people, but what about in cases where
you have to substitute ingredients?  Come up with something new?  Fix a
problem?  It takes talent and training to become a master chef, and I assume
it would also take talent and training to become a potion master.  And it
obviously takes more than just the ability to follow instructions to make a
decent potion or else *everyone* would get an O on their Potions Owl.

Diana W.