What can Harry teach Hermione in DA ?

[Doriane]

No: HPFGUIDX 74092

"bohcoo" wrote:

> 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.

Ah ! I love that explanation, thank you ! It makes sense. It 
particularly explains why Hermione suddenly disappears from the 
leadership of the group, after setting it up. If she set it up to 
force Harry to lead (among other things), then it makes sense that 
she would restrain herself from interfering once he's started doing 
it.

Del