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

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 153124

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "eggplant107" 
<eggplant107 at ...> wrote:
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> "Magpie" <belviso@> wrote:
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> > I don't think it's as hard to get an O as all that.
> 
> I disagree, I think getting a O is very hard and quite rare. Even a
> genius like Hermione couldn't get a O in Defense Against The Dark
> Arts, only Harry could. 

Magpie:
Whatever Hermione's problems in DADA (Bad teachers? Inconsist 
teaching? Less natural talent?) she gets ten O's in her other 
classes doesn't she?  We're told Snape only accepts O's in his 
Potions NEWT class, so I think kids getting O's is a regular 
occurrance.  It's a test on a subject the kids have been studying 
for five years.  If it's impossible to get Outstanding it would 
suggest the test was completely inappropriate to their course of 
study.  Everyone should theoretically be able to get an O on all 
their OWLS.

-m