[HPforGrownups] Re: Let's hear it for good old Snapey!

[Susanne]

No: HPFGUIDX 87886



Hi,

Wednesday, December 31, 2003, 2:22:06 PM, Suzanne wrote:

>  but did Snape    
> expect
> him to remember everything in *One Thousand Magical Herbs and
> Fungi?*

> You seem to be a victim of binary thinking, dividing the class into
> "dummies" and "smart arses". In life actually, there's a huge
> middle group,
> neither dummy nor smart arse, who are wonderfully diverse, average
> people.

Right!

I suspect Hermione has the huge benefit of having a
photographic memory, making it possible to remember things
word for word after just one reading (or listening, meaning
the speech she could repeat after quite some time in OoP, by
Umbridge, I think).

I do think Snape was just trying to antagonize Harry with
his questioning. Otherwise he would have been happy to have
a student who read and remembered the book, instead of
putting Hermione down, is that was what he truly expected of
his new pupils.

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