What can Harry teach Hermione in DA ?

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No: HPFGUIDX 74564

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Doriane" <delwynmarch at y...> 
wrote:
> "iris_ft" wrote:
>  
> > I will start this post by quoting Hermione, in book 1:
> > "Harry, you are a great wizard, you know."
> > To which Harry replies:
> > "I'm not as good as you."
> > And then Hermione says:
> > "Me! Books! And cleverness!"
> > (HP/ PS, chapt. 16, p 208)
> > In those lines, Hermione recognizes that all her intellectual 
> > knowledge is not enough, and that Harry has something more, 
> > something she doesn't master herself.
> 
> You're not going to convince me with that :-) because I've never 
seen 
> what makes Harry so different. If I had to say what I admire in 
him, 
> I'd say his resourcefulness, his ability to keep a cold head in 
the 
> heat of things. But does that make him a great wizard ? For that 
> matter, what exactly IS a great wizard ? If it is a particularly 
> magically talented person, I don't see that Harry is such a great 
> wizard. He's good, but nothing exceptional (except at Quidditch). 
So ?
> 
But it's the resourcefulness that makes him great. Don't you 
remember the incident with the Devil's Snare? 'But there's no wood!'
I could go on and on, but I think it all boils down to one thing - 
Harry has _experience_, not pratice, because Hermione wouldn't be 
Hermione if she didn't want to know everything about how to cast a 
spell, including the actual casting.
As far as experience, that gives Harry two different advantages over 
Hermione - First, when it's students teaching students, and quite 
possibly many of them are older than the teacher, the teacher 
shouldn't be a bossy know-it-all, and Famous Harry Potter has more 
respect. Secound, the resourcefulness - if it's life or death, it 
doesn't matter if you cast a Tickle Curse or the Disarming Charm, as 
long as it works and you live no one cares what you use. Hermione 
would be intent on learning and teaching all the spells, charms, and 
curses known to man, but most people don't have her memory or 
attention span for learning. Harry knows which ones are actually 
practical as far as effectivness and difficulty in cast - he may not 
have used the spell in any incident so far, but he's more likely to 
veto the longer incantations because there's too much time to be 
interrupted by the opponent. Hermione would struggle with that idea, 
to happy to be learning the spell to realize that it'd be useless 
because the pronunciation would never come out right if you tried to 
hurry.
In short, Hermione just likes learning, she would have trouble being 
as practical as Harry who is the average student and will only 
bother with something if he thinks it'll be useful. and since he's 
the resident expert amoung the students, he's the only one who 
anyone will surrender an argument to when it comes to opinions about 
praticality (not who has the most worthwhile opinion, but who is 
believed to).
Later!