Bathroom Scene - A Different Perspective.

[colebiancardi]

No: HPFGUIDX 165201

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "quick_silver71"
<quick_silver71 at ...> wrote:
 
> Actually this touches on something that I've been wondering about for 
> a while...how good is Harry at potions? 
> 

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> Even after Harry hides the HBP book and is unable to use it in class 
> Harry states that his work "suffers accordingly"...if JK wanted Harry 
> to be a total fraud at potions why not say that he dropped to the 
> bottom of class (which is where he was at when he entered it)? 
 

colebiancardi:

well, Harry is not a total loser at Potions.  He managed to get an "E"
in Snape's class.  So, I think the words "suffers accordingly"  is
two-fold:  a) he goes back to pre-HBP days, where he had to work to
get his "E" and b) since he hasn't really been doing his own work in
Potions - Snape seemed to give a lot of essays in Potions, I don't
remember reading that Sluggy gave any homework - he is behind in
class.   Harry hasn't been reading the Potions book, just HBP's notes
and then just using them - an easy way out, so to speak.  Harry hasn't
been exposed to trial, error, failure and success in the 6th year
Potions class.  He is just following instructions that Snape wrote.  

colebiancardi