What can Harry teach Hermione in DA ?

[bohcoo]

No: HPFGUIDX 73946

--- 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.
> 
> Which bring another question I have. When Harry receives the DADA 
> books for Christmas, he's excited by all the new stuff he'll be 
able 
> to teach the DA. But how can he teach them if he doesn't know them 
> first ? I'm not saying he can't learn them first on his own, but 
that 
> would be terribly out of character. Just the year before, he needed 
> all the help he could get from Hermione to learn the charms he did 
> manage to learn, so I can hardly imagine that he could suddenly 
learn 
> new ones on his own.
> 
> So I would understand if it said somewhere that Hermione is some 
kind 
> of co-leader of the DA, but she's described as just a normal 
member, 
> and that irritates me extremely : when did Harry become a better 
> student than Hermione ??? I mean, Hermione can charm those 
Galleons, 
> which is supposed to be NEWT level magic, but she doesn't know 
those 
> charms Harry knows ? Illogical...
> 
> Del

Bohcoo replies:

I agree with you, Del, that it didn't make a bit of sense for 
Hermoine to suggest that Harry teach DADA classes. Illogical, yes, 
but ah!, from the heart, it was perfect:

GOF, ch. 14, pg. 220, American Edition:
"Telling Neville what Professor Sprout had said, Harry thought, had 
been a very tactful way of cheering Neville up, for Neville very 
rarely heard that he was good at anything. It was the sort of thing 
Professor Lupin would have done."

OOP, ch. 15, pg. 326, American Edition:
"'No, I agree, we've gone past the stage where we can just learn 
things out of books,' said Hermoine. 'We need a teacher, a proper 
one, who can show us how to use the spells and correct us if we're 
going wrong.'
'If you're talking about Lupin...' Harry began.
'I'm talking about you teaching us Defense Against the Dark Arts.'"

I took the whole Dumbledore Army thing to be Hermoine's way of doing 
what "Professor Lupin would have done." The mention of Lupin by Harry 
is in a different context, of course, but the subtle reference to 
Lupin brought to mind his wonderful way of bolstering someone's 
sagging confidence or spirits just when they needed it the most -- 
and, in such a way as not to let that person know it. Exactly what 
Hermoine did for Harry. Exactly what Harry needed.