[HPforGrownups] Age, integrity, and the potions textbook

[IreneMikhlin]

No: HPFGUIDX 135303

hekatesheadband wrote:

> Granted, he may have wanted students to experiment for 
> themselves - but with the way he berates them for failure when they 
> do deviate from the book's directions, how can he expect that they 
> would ever dare it? 

Exactly, he berates them for failure, not for the deviations. I don't 
remember him going around and criticizing the process much, only the result.

> There would be no need to spoon-feed it to 
> them: the occasional "Arsenius Jigger says to do X, but I find that 
> Y can also be useful" or "For homework, think of how you might 
> modify these instructions, and explain them." He's never done 
> anything like.

I remember a homework to the lines of "explain why your mistakes caused 
the result they did".

Irene