Am I the only one...

[zgirnius]

No: HPFGUIDX 135718

"Krissy" wrote:
> Also, did it bother anyone else that Hermione DID seem kind of stupid
> in Potions? We're talking about a girl who made Poly-juice Potion in
> her second year. I don't understand how she could do that then, but
> suddenly seem quite inept and unable to work at potions in her sixth 
>year.

zgirnius replies:
Only by comparison to the HBP. In every single class she was better 
than anyone except Harry, and usually came out with a potion that was 
more or less correct, except when she ran out of time. And we don't 
know when the HBP wrote those notes. I mean, was he so brilliant that 
he walked into 6th year NEWT potions every day, did whatever potion 
assigned that day in a new, creative, and better way, and then in the 
spare time left in the class, wrote down notations of his improvements? 
I doubt it!! Even a complete genius would probably need some time for 
experimentation, to get exactly the right changes to the 
instructions/ingredients.