[HPforGrownups] Age, integrity, and the potions textbook

[Metylda]

No: HPFGUIDX 135231

<snipping an interesting dicussion on 'cheating'>

> Jim Ferer: 
> <If Snape had been a better man and teacher, all the
> NEWT students might have had a copy of _Advanced
> Potions, Second Edition_, by Borage & Snape. If
> Snape wasn't sharing his tricks of the trade then
> that doesn't speak well of him as a teacher.>
> 
> weildman: 
> <I think we have all missed the implications of the
> HBP's potions book in this discussion... I think the
> most telling aspect of the HBP potions book is the
> revelation that it belonged to Snape. This
> absolutely genius improvement in a 50 year old
> textbook is allowed to gather dust instead of
> improving the knowledge of students. I believe Snape
> failed as a teacher when he failed to use his
> greater knowledge of the subject to improve the text
> for the course.  I don't know what his reasons for
> withholding this knowledge was, but in doing so he
> failed his students and the wizarding world. The
> fact that he could
> have shared this knowledge and didn't is really
> telling about his 
> character.>
> 
> hekatesheadband:
> I agree with this wholeheartedly. I'm a denizen of
> the geeky 
> academic world myself, so I just find myself wanting
> to shout at 
> Snape: If you care so much about the "noble art and
> subtle science 
> of potion-brewing," why don't you act to ennoble it
> further! How can 
> someone who claims to care so much about potions
> make the core of 
> his curriculum the following of instructions he
> knows to be 
> inadequate? 

bamf here:

I find it interesting that we know Snape wrote
directions for the potions they were making on the
board in previous years.  It stuck me as odd that he
would do that when students have textbooks.  I was
wondering, if maybe Snapey-boy WAS sharing his
knowledge.  Mayhaps he was writing 'improved' potions
one the board, and no one thought to compare them to
what was in the book.  

Thought?

There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast.

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Me t wyrd gewf

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