The Eggplant and Snape and I

Cathy Drolet cldrolet at sympatico.ca
Fri Aug 26 20:45:34 UTC 2005


No: HPFGUIDX 138828

Jessica Bathurst
>  we never see him [Snape] come to
> class unprepared, and he does try
> to actually teach these kids potions.  

Eggplant:
>>Not only does Snape abuse children to an almost criminal degree I
don't think he's even very good at teaching his subject. When Harry
makes a potion for the first time without Snape breathing down his
neck in his OWL test he surprised himself at how well he does.

CathyD:
We just had this conversation on list, you should have read it.  Snape, despite his teaching method, is actually a very good teacher in that he got at least 25% of his 40 fifth-year students to achieve an Outstanding OWL.  How many of the other 30 achieved Outstanding and did not need to continue to NEWT level Potions is not said although I would imagine there were a few.  How many, other than Harry and Ron, achieved Exceeds Expectations and may have been given the choice to continue in Slughorn's class but did not, is not known either. Nor how many passed with Acceptable but could not continue to NEWT a level class that required EE.   Potions, as someone else said, doesn't appear to be a class you take just for the fun of it.  If you don't need advanced level Potions for your career of choice then you wouldn't take that class.  Who passed or failed obviously isn't important to the story or we would know, but to say Snape is a poor teacher certainly is not accurate, based on the numbers we know would have made it to Snape's NEWT class if he were still teaching Potions.

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