Discrepancy of skills

[catherine higgins]

No: HPFGUIDX 147803


Allie:
> Two topics in the area of magical skill do not add up for me.
> 
> 1.  Hermione Granger, most talented witch of her age, able to 
> perform well on both written and practical exams, able to master 
> complicated spells in a single lesson, able to produce a Patronus 
> in one D.A. session... achieves only an E on her DADA Owl????  
   
saberbunny:
Don't forget, Hermione (and pretty much the rest of the DA except 
Lavander) learned how to produce a Patronus in a bright room without 
any Dementors (or Boggarts assuming the shape of a Dementor). Harry 
even points out that it's not the same thing learning the spell and 
using it to defend yourself. When Harry learned how to produce a 
Patronus, he was younger AND had to do it facing a boggart/dementor. 
Also the examiner must have known that he had on at least 1 occasion 
produced the Patronus to protect himself from Dementors. That is 
indeed more impressive. Don't forget as well in the book PoA at the 
lake when Harry tells Hermione the spell to save them and Sirius, she 
fails.