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

[justcarol67]

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> Dana wrote:
<snip> But we also see many types of injuries Snape does nothing about
through out the course of the books. He does not help the healing of
the petrified in CoS because it does not require his help. <snip>


Carol responds to this one point:

As I've said elsewhere, the teachers have duties related to their area
of expertise other than actual teaching. While it's Madam Pomfrey's
duty as the school nurse to *administer* the Mandrake Restorative
Potion, it's Lockhart's job as DADA teacher to deal with Dark magic in
the school (at which he fails abysmally) and Professor Sprout's to
grow the Mandrakes. But it's Snape's responsibility to *brew* the
potion, as he makes clear to Lockhart:

"'We will be able to cure her [Mrs. Norris], Argus,' said Dumbledore.
'Professor Sprout recently managed to procure some Mandrakes. As soon
as they have reached their full size, I will have a potion made that
will revive Mrs. Norris.'

"'I'll make it,' Lockhart butted in. 'I must have done it a hundred
times. I could whip up a Mandrake Restorative Draught in my sleep.'

"'Excuse me,' said Snape icily. 'But I believe I am the Potions master
at this school" (Cos Am. ed. 144).

IOW, just as it's Snape's job to brew Veritaserum in Gof and Wolfsbane
Potion in PoA, it's his job to brew the Mandrake Restorative Potion.
Fortunately for Dumbledore and the school, Snape is considerably at
his job than Lockhart is at his, and the students, cat, and ghost are
successfully unpetrified.

Carol, who thinks the medium-that-must-not-be-named has misled a
number of people into thinking that Madam Pomfrey and Professor Sprout
prepared the potion