[HPforGrownups] Re: Marrietta's betrayal

[Batchevra at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 110953

In a message dated 8/22/04 5:52:58 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
delwynmarch at yahoo.com writes:

>Batchevra wrote : 
" There are times when disobeying rules or laws are correct in that
the laws are used in a harmful way. The DA was teaching the practical
side of DADA, Umbridge was making sure that none of the students were
competent in that. The students needed to know how to do the DADA
spells in order to pass their OWLS and defend themselves. Also, in
passing the OWLS would determine what jobs they were getting after
Hogwarts, definitely important. "

Del replies :
Now that you mention it, I realised 2 things.
First we don't know that Harry checked the curriculum to know which
spells he should teach the DA. I'm not sure the Patronus charm, for
example, is OWL material.
Second, we don't know how bad the non-DA fifth-years did at their DADA
practical OWL.
Oh, and third : anyone could grab a book and study the charms on their
own or with their friends in their common room. They could even enroll
the help of the 6th- and 7th.years. The DA were not just about
learning some spells, they were mostly about resisting Umbridge.

Del<

I agree that Harry probably didn't check the curriculum, but some of those 
spells that we read that he taught them, Stupefy and Expelliarmus were pretty 
basic. He also used the books that Sirius and Lupin had gotten him for 
Christmas. The Patronus charm was like a bonus for the group. But they weren't only 
against Umbridge, they were learning how to defend themselves against Voldemort 
and that was also stated in the beginning.

Batchevra


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