[HPforGrownups] DADA position.

[Patricia Bullington-McGuire]

No: HPFGUIDX 58683

On Mon, 26 May 2003, cello_siok wrote:

>  Do you think to be a DADA professor, that person must know how to do 
> dark arts? I think my grammer is wrong. What I mean was the person 
> who teaches DADA also know how to perform dark arts. Do you think it 
> is logical? 

Yes.  I think the Dark Arts and the defense against them are really one
and the same.  Any dark wizard who doesn't bother to learn the
counter-curses to his curses or the ways to identify, control and if
necessary destroy the dark creatures he may be using is a fool.  And
learning a counter-curse without knowing about the curse it is supposed to
counter is utterly pointless.  I think the difference between DADA and a
Dark Arts class is one of emphasis -- DADA teaches that Dark Arts are
taboo and to be avoided.  But the actual subject matter would overlap and
great deal between a DADA and Dark Arts curiculum.

----
Patricia Bullington-McGuire	<patricia at obscure.org>

The brilliant Cerebron, attacking the problem analytically, discovered
three distinct kinds of dragon: the mythical, the chimerical, and the
purely hypothetical.  They were all, one might say, nonexistent, but each
nonexisted in an entirely different way ... 
                -- Stanislaw Lem, "Cyberiad"