Draco's potion making skills WAS: Scary Teachers - Good Teachers

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> Carol:
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> And here's your single bit of canon that Draco has any flair for 
the
> subject. In the very first Potions class, Snape is "just telling
> everyone to look at the perfect way Malfoy had stewed his horned
> slugs" when Neville somehow melts Seamus's cauldron (139). So any
> favoritism Snape shows to Draco is partly based on, and reinforced 
by,
> Draco's Potions abilities. Snape would not favor a "dunderhead," no
> matter whose son he was (he "criticiz[es] almost everyone except
> Malfoy," meaning Slytherins as well as Gryffindors. SS Am. ed. 
119).
> 

Alla:

Let's talk some more about Draco's cutting skills. I am really not 
sure that Snape is being truthful here or that Draco is always a 
perfect cutter ( meaning an "O" level cutter).

Remember Draco showing up after his injury in Potions class and 
making Ron cutting his ingredients for him? I mean, Snape made him 
on Draco's request, but that is not very relevant for my purposes.

Now, if Malfoy was truly unable to cut here, that would be a 
different story, but we KNOW Draco is faking and he does not hide it 
from Harry or the reader.

So, that tells me ( IMO of course) that Draco is not really 
comfortable in his Potion making or cutting skills if he is so glad 
to make Ron do it.

I mean of course Draco is glad to make Ron do it out of malice, but 
would he risk to let someone who is obviously beneath him to make 
preparations for his Potion?

Does it make sense?

Alla