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Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry Challenge [Arithmacy] – reality; situation; skill; recipe
Skills Not Possessed
Ron could not truly decide whether he hated the subject or the teacher worse.
Potions on its own was horrible, he knew because both his parents had tried to teach him to brew the year before Hogwarts as they had with everyone else in their family and that had failed spectacularly.
Snape just made everything worse with his comments and his ominous presence. Snape seemed to hate Gryffindor above that and only taunted and teased most of the Gryffindors for their horrible potions. That could also be the reason his mother never let him anywhere near the stove while she was cooking, especially when there were precise recipes to follow.
Ron knew he was horrible at Potions, he really did not need someone else to point it out to him. Both Ron's parents had only sighed and shook their heads at every new exploded cauldron and banished the entire mixture, pewter and all, to some place where he never saw it again. They had not given up for a while afterwards though.
Potions was a skill he apparently did not possess, one of many skills he did not possess. Of course, sitting next to Hermione made nothing better in any situation because Hermione always knew what she was doing. It just made everything worse in reality because when Ravenclaws ran out of the classroom in tears after having Hermione talk to them in any subject, Ron just knew it was bad.