Random HP Thought

[kerravonsen]

I wonder if Snape was a kinesthetic learner, and that's why his lessons were structured as practicals without lectures?

Comments

[kittylefish.livejournal.com]

hmm. i just always thought it made sense with potions to do it hands-on - sort of like a lab science - but that could be. i did an nlp training and one of the things we learned is that if you can figure out whether someone is more visual, auditory, or kinesthetic, then you use that in how you talk to them and your sales pitch will be more effective. well, it doesn't have to be a sales pitch, lol, but communication. it was interesting.

[kerravonsen]

Oh, I don't mean that they shouldn't have done potions hands-on, but I find it appalling that Snape's very first potions lesson with inexperienced first-years had them brewing - without any lectures on safety or technique - a potion which was potentially explosive, and did, indeed, explode all over Neville.

[kittylefish.livejournal.com]

lol. you probably have a point, there. so maybe he wasn't just an evil bastard, lol.

[jaxomsride.livejournal.com]

Lectures would not have sufficed. There was more to making potions than their ingredients. Some things can only be learnt by doing. Such as the consequences of getting the potion wrong.

Snape clearly expected his pupils to have read the required Potion book before even arriving at Hogwarts. Somehow I think Hermione was probably the only one to have read it cover to cover.