[HPforGrownups] Flitwick or Snape as DADA?

[Suzanne Chiles]

No: HPFGUIDX 91002

> ~Adri~
> Who's still wondering how Neville manages to be so inept at
> Potions, yet so good in Herbology and DADA . . .

What's to wonder? Look at the OWLs test in OoTP:

"The afternoon practical was not as dreadful as he had expected it to be.
With Snape absent from the proceedings, he found that he was much more
relaxed than he usually was while making potions. Neville, who was sitting
near Harry, also looked happier than Harry had ever seen him during a
Potions class."

In other words, Neville's stress from the constant probability of being
publicly humiliated by Professor Snape is more than enough cause for him to
perform poorly in Snape's class.

Suzanne