OoP(Spoilers) Snape as teacher

[xnavyguy73]

No: HPFGUIDX 66964

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Diana Williams" <diana at s...> 
wrote:
> >
> > 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.

Me: 
     I agree with that statment, If u can follow directions then u 
can be a Potions Master, then why arn't all chefs Master Chefs???  
There are a lot of nuances involved in Brewing, Cooking, Chemestry, 
and all kinds of ingredent mixing.  The subtlety involved in 
Chemestry "Potion Making", is intense, and exacting.  Such as blend 
the sulpher slowly and evenly with the bat saliva...  now if you've 
never been shown how to do it "slowly and evenly" then the 
possability of doing it wrong is extreamly good. So the potion/dinner 
is runed...  So yes it is a bunch of step by step instructions but 
they also needs a practice use to know how some of those more 
suffisticated steps are done...