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

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 185900


> 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.


Potioncat:
Lockhart was the DADA instructor. He should have had a plan. Snape was 
just supposed to be helping out. Whose idea was that any way? 

I jut read over the chapter and was disappointed to discover that some 
of my favorite lines of dialogue are different from TMTMNBN...and that 
I prefer the non-canon version. 

And what about Snape's Expelliarmus? It blasted Lockhart across the 
room. I guess Snape really wanted to separate Lockhart from his wand.