Harry, Hermione, and Potions WAS Re: Bathroom Scene - A Different Perspective.

[Zara]

No: HPFGUIDX 165232

 
> zgirnius:
> 
> > Plagiarism is still plagiarism even
> > when no money is made from it. 
> Eggplant:
> If I obtain a skill from reading a book I have not indulged in
> plagiarism every time I exercise that skill. If I read a book on 
chess
> and it improves my game I am not plagiarizing every time I play.   

zgirnius:
If on the other hand, someone comliments you on the new line you 
invented to defend the King's Indian opening, and wonders how you 
keep coming up with such things, and you say, gee thanks, instead of 
explaining you read an article on it in a chess book, you are being 
dishonest.  *That's* the bit people are objecting to. 


> > He [Snape] is said to write potions
> > instruction on the board - I believe 
> > this is because he taught the
> > improved methids. 

Eggplant: 
> The difficulty Hermione was having in potions was entirely of her 
own
> doing. Harry offered to share the HBP book with her but she refused
> and insisted on doing things the boring old textbook way. This
> unexpected streak of intellectual pig-headedness does not speak well
> for her success in the coming years. I hope she gets over it.  

zgirnius:
Actually, I was disappointed too, but not because she refused to use 
the improved instructions. In that she acted correctly. What she 
should have done after the first class, or at most the second, whe it 
was clear the first was not a fluke, would be to read the notes in 
Harry's book, go away and do research in the library if necessary, 
and figure out *why* the HBP's instructions were working better.
(This would be like someone else's kid with a lousy physics teacher 
and physicist dad - after dad's help, he actually could solve a 
similar problem on his own.)

--zgirnius, who expects, sadly, that she will need to explain a lot 
of math to her kids when they are older, but will most certainly NOT 
let them use her hints without understanding them.