[HPforGrownups] Re: What can Harry teach Hermione in DA ?

[Przemyslaw Plaskowicki]

No: HPFGUIDX 73963

bohcoo wrote (2003-07-29 21:56):

>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.
>  
>
Also, up the thread, wolfsharkie wrote (2003-07-29 18:36):

>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'd like to point out that quote found by bohco seems to inadvertly support wolfsharkie; DA was set up not to learn DA  its members how to *cast* spells, but how to *use* them in different situations.

Regards

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Pshemekan