Bathroom Scene - A Different Perspective.

[colebiancardi]

No: HPFGUIDX 165183

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "eggplant107" <eggplant107 at ...>
wrote:
 
> That is quite simply baloney. There is not a single chemistry
> professor on planet Earth that would not praise a student to high
> heaven who had found (and I don't care how he had found it) a way to
> perform an experiment that was superior to the way the textbook
> described. I can't emphasize that enough, HE WOULD BE PRAISED!  
>  
 
colebiancardi:

yes, as Slughorn praised Harry.  But an honest student would have
given credit where credit was due.  An honest student would have cited
references to where they got that knowledge.  If I write an essay, I
better cite all my references or I will flunk that course, no matter
how brilliant my essay is.  Because my essay really isn't mine as I
used other sources.  Harry wasn't an honest student here.  He took
credit for someone else's work and that is why Snape called him a liar
& a cheat.  Snape somehow *knew*, in my opinion, that Harry was not
the potions genuis that Slughorn and the rest of the school (Ron &
Hermione excluded) think he is and that Harry was using the HBP's book.

colebiancardi(who has to sign an agreement every semester to state her
work is her own, otherwise I can get expelled)