First lesson WAS: Re: Marietta, was Slytherin's Reputation

[jkoney65]

No: HPFGUIDX 185899

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Annemehr" <annemehr at ...> wrote:
>
> 
> > jkoney:
> > [Snape] can still be "protecting" Harry and be up to something. 
Such 
> as 
> > having an advanced spell that he doesn't know cast at him, making 
him 
> > look foolish in front of the rest of the school. 
> > 
> 
> Annemehr:
> Snape certainly was up to something.
> 
> Supposedly, Draco was supposed to cast a spell *at Harry,* who 
would 
> try to block it with Protego.  And it wouldn't really have mattered 
how 
> advanced the spell was (aside from an AK), if only Harry knew how 
to 
> cast Protego.
> 
> But Snape told Draco not to cast a spell at Harry, but to conjure a 
> snake instead.  As far as we know, Protego doesn't protect you from 
> animals.
>
jkoney:
Yes, the instructors certainly failed to demonstrate how to cast 
Protego.

What they should have done is demonstrate the spell and then review 
it with the students to make sure everyone had an idea of what it 
was. Then if they wanted a pair of students to demonstrate whether 
they learned it or not, the students would have least had a chance. 
Instead Harry is left with a bumbling Lockhart and no instruction. 
That is not the way to teach students, unless you want them to fail.