[HPforGrownups] Is Neville getting better at Potions?

[Janet Anderson]

No: HPFGUIDX 94438

Pippin says:

>I am wondering if Neville simply does better with the instructions
>all written on the board OWL style, instead of having to keep track
>of Snape's  oral instructions.

*snip*

>The other class where he seems to have the most trouble is
>Transfiguration, and McGonagall's teaching method seems to
>be as verbal as Snape's, minus the sarcasm.
>
>In Herbology and CoMC where everything is done by
>demonstration, and in History of Magic and Divination where
>there is written instruction as well as verbal, Neville seems to do
>all right.

This would seem to support the widespread theory that Neville's memory has 
been damaged somehow (intentionally or otherwise).  He'd have trouble 
remembering verbal instructions once they were over, but if all he had to do 
was look at written instructions when he needed to, he'd have far less 
trouble.

He certainly had a lot of trouble remembering passwords ... he should be 
glad he's a wizard and doesn't have to use computers. :)


Janet Anderson

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