Potions Master Question/ Viridis?

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 94132

-> The Sergeant Majorette wrote:
> 
> DD teaches transfiguration because he's good at teaching. Teaching 
> Potions is a piece of cake. You put the recipe on the board and then 
> walk around messing with their little heads while they brew. A blown 
> cauldron or three, some boils, some toxic vapor --eh. <snip>

I'm not sure that teaching Potions is a piece of cake. He has to know
all those potion recipes by heart (not to mention having the antidote
on hand, which he has to prepare in advance). He has to know where and
when each potion went wrong--why is Harry's blue and Neville's pink
when they're both supposed to be turquoise? Not to mention that he is
teaching at least six, possibly seven, levels of students (I don't
know whether the sixth and seventh years have NEWT Potions together),
so six or seven lesson plans, six or seven sets of homework (potions
or essays or both), not to mention the frustration of dealing with
"dunderheads" who melt their cauldrons and give each other boils. Not
a piece of cake in my view. Much easier to give them a mouse, tell
them the proper spell for vanishing it, insist that they concentrate,
and watch them for the rest of the hour. Oh, yes, there's homework,
too, but a Transfiguration teacher doesn't have to explain which step
was missed in vanishing all of the mouse but the tail.

Carol (who would end up teaching Muggle Studies if she were at Hogwarts)