Dragons, Produced and Tickled, and Other Pleasantries

[Barry Arrowsmith]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "nrenka" <nrenka at y...> wrote:
> 
> You're far more charitable than I would be in considering Lockhart to 
> be one of the "big boys".  No, I was thinking of a situation where 
> students are freer to fight back and the core of the class is actual 
> discussion and argument where positions have to be defended as to 
> equals, as opposed to getting to be the dictator and reveling in 
> bullying inferior students.
> 

Wouldn't work, I think.
Free-for-all discussion, expressing contrary views and the like only
surfaces in subjects that are, well subjective. Where analyses, opinions,
conclusions are open to personally derived interpretations. Potions 
doesn't fall into that category - it's fact-based, like physics or chemistry. 
Any student who knew enough to dispute with the lecturer shouldn't be 
in the class anyway.

I'd agree that Lockhart is a lightweight, but consider - Snape, without 
too much effort simultaneously squelches Harry and Sirius at GP.
No, I don't think bumptious students would get much change out
of an old hand like Sevvy. 

Kneasy