CHAPTER DISCUSSION: Chapter 12, "Professor Umbridge"

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jen Reese" 
<stevejjen at e...wrote:
 5) Snape singles out Harry once again in Potions, making much of 
> Harry's mistake. It crossed my mind that Snape, while bullying 
> Harry, might also be trying to make certain Harry knows how to make 
> this particular potion. Any thoughts? 


Snape frequently does this. It will happen again when Umbridge 
observes the class later on. While his approach is anything but 
encouraging, he makes sure Harry knows what the mistake was. Harry 
assumes he received a zero, but we don't know that.  Just as we don't 
know what grades the other potions earned. It really wouldn't matter 
if he did, since the O.W.L.S. and N.E.W.T.S. are more important than 
class grades.

At the same time Snape's bullying teaches Harry the potion, but makes 
Harry look inept to those Slytherin students who might be talking 
about Potter to their Death Eater parents. So Death Eaters may have 
the  idea that Potter is no good at potions and that Snape really 
dislikes him.

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