Career Advice (was Re: Bullying/Snape and Neville

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 140866

 
> Alla:
> Again, I think that it is a possibility that since Neville loves 
> plants, he would be interested in figuring out what kind of potions 
> could be made of them.

Potioncat:
Well, I'm sure there's more to herbology than potion ingredients. So 
a Herbologist may need to provide a Potion maker with a plant that 
was picked at the right time or dried in the right way, etc. Or they 
may need to provide a selection of plants to an apothecary for a 
herbal mixture.

Cultivating the plants for their eventual use is a study in itself. I 
doubt if a potionmaker would want to spend all the time necessary to 
raise all the herbal ingredients.

So the herbologist may need to understand the eventual use of the 
plants without being able to make the potion. Just as the potionmaker 
may need to understand something of how the plant was grown, but 
doesn't need to be the one to grow it.
> 
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> 
> Pippin: 
> > We can't even say that Neville's lack of NEWT classes in potion
> making kept him from becoming an Auror, because he wasn't able to 
progress in transfiguration either.
> > 
> 
> Alla:> 
> No, we cannot, but I think we can speculate that for example if
> Neville wanted to become a Healer, he cannot do so, because Healer 
is likely to be required to have a NEWT in Potions, IMO.

Potioncat:
Healer needed Transfigurations, Potions, DADA and something else. I 
remember that Auror and Healer needed the same courses. Which is why 
I think Ron is taking courses for Auror but will become a Healer.