Snape as Neville's teacher (was:Re: Snape as Noble teacher...)

[Ceridwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 168370

Dana again: 
> I want to add this quote from canon that Neville did not have to have 
> a good grade for potions to pass through to the next year. So there 
> is no canon proof that Snape's teaching method's made Neville get 
> good enough marks in potions and not just fail them year in and out. 
> He just got enough good grades in other subjects to make it through 
> the years. 
> 
> Pg: 222 Uked Paperback; chapter: 17
> 
> Even Neville scraped through, his good Herbology mark making up for 
> his abysmal potions mark. 
> 
> (PS/SS).

Ceridwen:
Many people have a subject that is not their forte.  My subject is 
math.  In three semesters, I have nine top marks, two second top marks, 
one second lowest, and one failing.  The last two are in Algebra.  I 
would love to have "scraped through" Math 102 the first time and not 
have had to take it over.

Why can't Neville just be bad at Potions?  Why do all students in the 
books have to be good, or at least competent, in all their subjects, 
unless they're the goons, like Crabbe and Goyle?  Why is it assumed 
that Neville would be better, at least competent if not passing with 
flying colors, if someone else taught him Potions?

If Neville is with Potions the way I am with Algebra, then Snape did a 
good job with what Neville brought to the class.  No teacher, no matter 
how nice, no matter what style he or she used, would make a Potions 
genius out of him.  I'm too lazy to grab HBP, but did Harry ever know 
what Neville got on his Potions O.W.L.?

Ceridwen.