[HPforGrownups] Re: In Defense of Snape (long)

[Shaun Hately]

No: HPFGUIDX 122364

On 19 Jan 2005 at 11:24, vmonte wrote:

> 
> 
> >Shaun wrote:
> It's manufacture apparently wasn't discussed in detail in class
> (otherwise they wouldn't have had to get its recipe from the
> Restricted Area) but the potion was mentioned.
> 
> vmonte responds:
> It's manufacture was not discussed in class? Yet, it's a question the 
> children were suppose to know for their OWLS? I guess the only people 
> who got this question right were Harry, Hermione, and Ron.  

Shaun:

I should have been clearer - it's manufacture apparently wasn't 
discussed in class in *Second Year*. There's nothing to suggest 
it's manufacture hasn't been discussed since then.

Secondly, the question on the examination may not have discussed 
manufacture at all:

"Sure  enough, he found the written paper difficult, though he 
thought he  might have got full marks on the question about 
Polyjuice Potion; he could describe its effects accurately, having 
taken it illegally in his second year."  

This suggests strongly that the question asked was about the 
effects of Polyjuice Potion - not necessarily about its 
manufacture at all.
 
> Shaun wrote:
> I doubt it. We know that to get the information they need and the
> ingredients they need for their 'extra-curricular' activity in
> potions, Harry, Ron, and Hermione have to resort to fraud and
> theft. I doubt it's all that common, and I really doubt that
> Neville goes around doing those things at all often.
> 
> vmonte responds:
> They would have never gotten the answer right if they hadn't.

There's no reason to suppose that at all. They may have studied 
it's manufacture since second year - and the manufacture may not 
have been asked about anyway - the question may well have only 
considered the effects, from what is written in Order of the 
Phoenix.



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