Draco's potion making skills.

[littleleahstill]

No: HPFGUIDX 153135

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sistermagpie" <belviso at ...> 
wrote:
>> 
> Eggplant:
 
> > 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).> -m


Leah:

And quite ofen, a person with a truly new insight into a subject, 
doesn't shine that much academically, because they don't follow the 
rules that Magpie sets out above.  Einstein's headmaster said 
Einstein 
wasn't university material, that's why he ended up in the patent 
office.  If Snape had written 'stick a bezoar down their throat' in 
a potions NEWT, I don't think he would have got an O, because that 
innate grasp the subject wasn't what he was being asked to 
demonstrate.  We don't know if Snape is at genius level at potions, 
but the Prince's annotations show that sort of flair.  Hermione's 
class work shows someone who is going to work at getting the top 
grade.   Harry got marks in DADA for demonstrating a corporeal 
patronus; he didn't get that out of classes.

Leah