Snape as Neville's teacher / JKR's sexy men roll call

[justcarol67]

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Phoenixgod wrote:
> I see Harry's Potion results as an anomaly.  IIRC, he gets lucky by
 having his essay question on a potion he knows intimately.  If the
question hadn't been about polyjuice, I'm not sure he would have done
so well. and you can't attribute his polyjuice knowledge to
Snape--just their ingredients :) 

Carol responds:

Actually, we *can* credit Snape, who not only taught Hermione how to
brew a potion, but told her of this potion's existence, what it does,
and where to find the recipe:

"Snape mentioned it in class a few weeks ago," says Hermione when the
boys fail to recognize the name of the potion. "It transforms you into
somebody else."  She also informs them that "it wears off after a
little while," which Snape must also have mentioned in class, and
adds, "But getting hold of the recipe will be very difficult. Snape
said it was in a book called 'Most Potente Potions' and it's bound to
be in the Restricted Section of the library" ((CoS Am. ed. 159-160).

So score another one for Snape. If he hadn't mentioned Polyjuice
Potion in class, and Hermione hadn't been paying attention to Snape's
lecture, Harry would not have known how to brew it and would no doubt
have scored lower on the written portion of his OWL.

Carol, noting that Snape also taught Harry about Bezoars and
Expelliarmus, both of which Harry actually credits to Snape at one
point or another