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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HelenL" data-source="post: 2873099" data-attributes="member: 127451">I'm afraid I wouldn't. There were set procedures to follow in order to get to the 'right' conclusion. There was no real examination and discovery as the whole point of the exercise was to prove Boyle's Laws (for example), or that black and white squares can, if enough are mounted on a pin, spin round in the sun.There was no 'let's take this Magnesium, some phosphate, a bit of gunpowder, any one of those chemicals over there and set light to it' which would have been much more fun. Science at Hogwarts is about discovery  Science at school is about learning facts and following rules.</blockquote>