What can Harry teach Hermione in DA ?

[wolfsharkie]

No: HPFGUIDX 73932

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Doriane" <delwynmarch at y...> wrote:
> 
> Ever since I read Hermione's idea about the DA, I kept thinking: but 
> what does Harry have to teach *you* ??? As far as I can remember, the 
> only thing Harry learned without Hermione around was the Patronus 
> Charm. In GoF, if I remember well, he keeps learning from and 
> practicing with her. And I can hardly imagine that she could help him 
> learn and practice something she doesn't know already.
>

I actually thought that what Harry could teach Hermione wasn't so much the spells, as 
an "attitiude" - ie, a creative way of looking at the use of the spells that they, as 
partially trained students, can safely use.

I don't have my books with me here at the office, but one of the other members asks 
Harry why he's wasting their time with a really basic spell (the disarming one - can't 
remember the name, sorry) and Harry responds that he used it on Voldemort and that 
it saved his life.

*That's* the kind of thing that Harry can teach.  The DA will give (and in fact, DID 
give) the members confidence in the spells that *they* can do, and a more flexible 
ability to apply them - so that they don't freeze up in a combat situation and die 
thinking "If only I knew a spell that I could use!!'  They know the spells - they just 
need the reassurance.

This is my first post, so I hope I did okay.

sharkie