Discrepancy of skills

[allies426]

No: HPFGUIDX 148025

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" <justcarol67 at ...> 
wrote:
>
> Hermione, in contrast, has had the same poor teachers and very little
> DADA experience--this is *before* the events in the DoM. She has only
> the DA lessons with Harry and some experience with minor Dark
> Creatures in Lupin's year. For some reason, she never had a chance to
> face her Boggart in his class, and so she blew that part of the exam
> in her third year. If a Boggart showed up on the OWL practical for 
her
> as it did for Harry, she has never learned how to deal with it (Harry
> doesn't bring any Boggarts into the RoM) and so she would fail it 
again.

Allie now:

Actually, knowing Hermione, she ran right to her books after she 
missed that question on Lupin's exam and read extensively about 
boggarts.  She then practiced how to defeat a boggart all summer, 
because less than perfect us unacceptable to her.

(So excited that my thread is still going!  :)  )