Now she knew Ms. Granger was a liar. A cheater who portrayed herself to be smarter than she actually was when all along it had been Harry who was the smart one. Like Severus, she'd gone over the assignments all the Hogwarts teachers kept as a matter of course. Since he had said Ms. Granger exchanged her completed assignments for his,- (simply changing the names on the papers and using a very nifty charm to change the penmanship. She didn't know the charm didn't effect a permanent change in the penmanship) -it hadn't been too hard for her to see the truth once she'd gone looking for it.
Which really did explain why Harry had always done so well on his exams while Ms. Granger didn't. After all, Ms. Granger couldn't exactly grab his paper in the classroom changing his name for hers right in front of the Professor. She'd always put Ms. Granger's lower test results down to Exam Anxiety. But that wasn't it at all. Ms. Granger really wasn't that bright regarding things she couldn't glean from the pages of a book. She always wrote a marathon of words and answered every question. But that didn't mean her answers were right. And there was a lot of things about magic she simply didn't understand having not come from a magical background.
Severus had told her Mr. Potter told him Ms. Granger had a problem transferring what she read out of the textbook into every day applications. That she understood what she read and had an extremely high vocabulary but she couldn't paraphrase what her books told her. So when asked a question she would always parrot the book she had read dealing with the topic of the question. While she could follow a recipe and make a decent potion, she couldn't have told you why it worked either. Because that wasn't written down in a book for her to read. If it had worked because not all written recipes would work if the brewer didn't apply their magic at precisely the right point in the brewing. The recipes never told you that because that point varied from brewer to brewer. But because it wasn't written down for her, Ms. Granger would never be able to make those recipes at all. Nor would reading about magic application to Potion Brewing help her any since the time for her to add her magic would be different from everyone else's. And that was why she always failed on her exams and performed less well than expected on her written homework but always had the answer to questions asked in the classroom.
Between them, she and Severus had informed the rest of the teaching staff to the truth of Ms. Granger's abilities and all her teachers were now combing through their own records and piles of saved homework or exam parchments to discover the depth of the girls' cheating habit. It would take time but before the end of the Soltice Break they fully expected to have the class standings for her year fixed.
So when the Board members came asking uncomfortable questions, she grit her teeth and answered them as best she could. It'd do her no good to try and cover for Albus yet again. He had played her for a fool and for far too long she'd danced to his tune. For fifty years now she'd thought him to be a good man with only the best in mind for the British people. Someone who would never deliberately set out to hurt her people's children or play games with their heads and minds. But he had and he did. His lies and games were still hurting the children.
They had caused her to hurt her students and Harry, at least, would most likely never forgive her. Not that she expected him to. He'd all but left the tower and she knew even if she went to him and asked him to resume his old bed in the fifth year dorm he wouldn't do so. And not just because Ronald Weasely still had a bed in that dorm. It hadn't been his bed since halfway through his second year. If he'd even used it for that long considering the hell she and those three had made it for him to be anywhere near the Gryffindor Tower. Severus told her he was comfortable in his rooms and didn't miss the dormitory. Poppy had told her to leave it alone as well. So had Irma surprisingly enough. Even Mr. Filch told her not to bother him now.
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