Draco's potion making skills.

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 153133

> sistermagpie wrote:
> 
> > Whatever Hermione's problems in DADA
> >(Bad teachers? Inconsistteaching? Less natural talent?)
> > she gets ten O's in her other classes doesn't she?
> 
> That's why I called Hermione a genius.

Magpie:
So you think straight-A students are all geniuses?  They're really 
not.

Eggplant:
> 
> > if it's impossible to get Outstanding [
]
> 
> It's not impossible, just very very difficult.
> 
> > Everyone should theoretically be able to
> > get an O on all their OWLS.
> 
> If everybody can get a O in everything then what grade do you give 
a
> genius?

Magpie:
Hermione doesn't get O's because she's a genius.  She gets O's 
because she understands and knows the material she memorizes in 
class and gets it right when it comes time to take the test (in this 
school genius doesn't even always come into it anyway). The marks 
are based on how well you perform on the material you've studied.  
Everyone in class can theoretically get an O in everything.  They've 
been given the information and been taught what to do.  Each year 
some students both retain the information they've learned, answer 
questions, write an essay or perform the skills they've learned well 
enough to get an O.  Snape only even agrees to continue with 
students unless they get O's in Potions, and most of Slughorn's 
class appears to meet this requirement, just as a classful of kids 
would every year.  

-m