Harry's bias again, answering several posts

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 141006

> Alla:
> 
> Do you think that Snape unwillingly overlooks the fact that Harry
was  raised a  muggle? Because it is strange to me that he would not
know,  since whole WW knows that Harry is ... well, not being raised
in WW.
> 
> I think Snape did it on purpose, knowing whole well  that Harry has 
> no clue about magic yet and have not had  ever any exposion to
magic  after his parents' murder. Just me of course.
> 

Pippin:
You're assuming that Harry would have known the answers to Snape's
questions if he'd been raised in the WW. But Ron was as stumped as he
was, not surprising since  draught of living death and  the bezoar
are NEWT level. It's only Harry's assumption that everyone who's
been raised in the WW knows lots of magic already. But in fact 
they aren't supposed to, though Harry doesn't realize this until
the end of his first year. 

As for knowing that  aconite, monkshood and wolfsbane 
are the same plant,   Harry needn't have studied One 
Thousand and One Magical Herbs and Fungi. They are names for
a real plant just as Nicholas Flamel is the name of a real person.

Snape was picking on Harry, but he wasn't taking advantage of Harry's
ignorance of the wizarding world, just his ignorance in general.

Pippin