Snape's teaching methods

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 144035

> > >>Alla:
> > Well, how do you figure that Neville does not flunk the potions 
> > every year? 
> > <snip>
> 
> Betsy Hp:
> Because Neville progresses with the rest of the class.  <snip> I'm 
not sure if merely flunking Potions would fail you out of 
> Hogwarts, though I believe it is a part of the core curriculum.  But 
> I'm pretty sure that if Neville didn't pass third year Potions he'd 
> have to repeat it and would not take fourth year Potions with his 
> classmates in GoF.  (Unless Hogwarts offered some form of summer 
> school, though everything in the books suggests it doesn't.)


Alla:

Is there a canon which supports what you are suggesting? I don't 
remember it, could you point me out to student flunking the class and 
having to repeat it? My memory could be faulty of course.

With the quote I brought up upthread about Harry worrying that he will 
fail Potions, he does not mention anything about possible repetition 
of the class.

I don't see Neville progressing in Potions at all, well we have not 
been shown much Potions in GoF, so maybe he was, but I won't base  the 
argument of Neville's progress based on the classes we don't see, 
because anything could have happenned there.

Going back to the original point, NO, I don't see Snape method working 
on Neville, not even tiny bit.

And it is extremely telling to me that he performs better on his OWL 
when Snape is not there tormenting him.

JMO,

Alla