Academic dishonesty.

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No: HPFGUIDX 139468

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Bev & Gary" <gbadams_77 at c...> 
wrote:
> And...wouldn't it be up to Slughorn to ask what Harry did to make 
it such a splendid potion?  I would think in a chemistry class (which 
I think is what the potions class correlates to)the teacher has a 
*responsibility* to ask such an exceptional student, "How did you do 
that?  Please, share with the class."  Instead Slughorn just keeps 
saying the same thing, that Harry is taking after his mother.


Now Merrylinks:
Actually, in a real world college chemistry class, the students would 
be expected to keep a lab notebook and to record exactly what they 
did at each step of a particular synthesis. Thus, if one of them 
deviated from the protocol, it would become obvious after reading 
that student's lab notebook. (If the steps were not recorded 
accurately, this would constitute doing a "dry lab" and would, of 
course, be subject to academic censure.) But for whatever reason, 
Potions students do not keep a lab notebook and, consequently, Harry 
cannot be accused of dry labbing. He is simply producing the potion 
that the teacher requested.

Once again, the definition of right and wrong in the Wizarding World 
may be different from ours. In the Scientific World, however, Harry 
has done nothing amiss.

Merrylinks