Good Slytherin - Telling McGonagall & Separation of Worlds.

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 71484

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "adamjmarcantel"
<adamjmarcantel at y...> wrote:


[Below refers to what extent H/R/H tried to tell McGonagall about what
was happening with the stone on the night they went after it]

> 
> They never try to tell her all of this (i.e. Snape and Quirrell, 
> Hagrid telling them how to get past fluffy).  I stand by what I said 
> in that they should have presented their case, not just say someone 
> is trying to steal it.
> 
> ...edited...
> 
> "Adam"

bboy_mn:

Let's not discount the fact the these kids are only 11 (or 12) years
old. Eleven and twelve year old kids are not that well able to
communicate.

Have any of you ever seen the now off the air TV show, The Wonder
Years about the life of an ordinary boy just about Harry's age.

The show has this marvelously deep insightfull narration, that is the
voice of Kevin Arnold as an adult, as he reflects back on his young life. 

I remember one particular episode were Kevin is incensed at how unjust
and cruel the method of picking teams for physical education class is.
It's the standard take the two biggest jock and make them team
captains then let them each in turn pick their friends until the
remaining group is whittled down to the losers, geeks, and nerds which
no one wants on their team, then finally whittle down to the one kid
that no one ever wants, and who is always picked last. 

The naration goes on and on in Kevin's adult voice about the injustice
of it all until Kevin finally decides to tell the coach what he
thinks, and the whole way down to the coaches office Kevin's adult
voice-over is rambling on and on with this deep insightful analysis
and social commentary on mankind and the state of humanity. Until
Kevin is standing right in front of the coach, he summons his last bit
of rightious indignations and says, 'It's just not fair.'.

That's the difference between an adult's well practice communicative
mind and the mind of a 11 year old boy. No matter how much rightious
indignation there is on the inside of an 11 year old, he just doesn't
have the skill and experience to express it with the same clarity and
intensity that he feels it.

As adult, we forget how separate the worlds of adults and children
are, each having it's own priorities and code of conduct. In most
cases, each having their own separate language. (Who the hell can
understand these 'hip-hop; kids when they talk; they could just as
well be from Mars.) And most importantly, each thoroughly
underestimating the other.

Also, let's not forget that this is a story. There are many times in
all the books when I've said to myself as I was reading, 'No, don't do
that; do THIS, it's a much better solution'. Only to realize that if
they did as I suggested, there wouldn't be any story to tell.

Just a thought.

bboy_mn