Harry's study habits

[vmonte]

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CathyD:
In a quick (very quick) glance through the six books yesterday, I 
found 23 instances of Harry goofing off in class, not paying attention 
in class, copying homework, making up stuff for Divination or Hermione 
doing his homework. I won't bore you with all of the quotes. And these 
were instances of only Harry not paying attention, not Harry and Ron, 
or Harry and Hermione, or instances where it seemed the whole class 
was goofing around (Charms comes to mind).

The only one of your references I found was the finding of an empty 
classroom which was when Harry was practicing a Summoning Charm, with 
Hermione, for the First Task of the TWT. Dire need, as I said in my 
earlier post on this subject.

vmonte responds:
I was the same way when I was in high school. I did well in the 
classes that interested me and I did just enough to get by in the 
classes that I thought were boring--math, science. (Except I did get 
an A once in science, the year we had a very cute teacher 
substituting; which goes to show that I probably would have done 
really well the other years if I had forced myself to pay attention 
like that one year.) 

Anyway, I have a feeling that Harry is going to apply himself in the 
next book. 

Vivian