Harry's Future...

[drliss at comcast.net]

No: HPFGUIDX 106246

cincimaelder
> - When Harry was teaching DA the Patronus charm in OoP, they seemed to
> do better than Harry did on his first shot at it.  Both Cho and
> Hermione where able to summon an animal, and all Harry was able to
> manage at first was some wisps vapor.

GEO: Possibly because Harry was a better teacher and that the 
students that he recruited were all fairly advanced level students 
(Cho was a Ravenclaw sixth year and Hermione is pretty brilliant) or 
else Lupin was a really bad teacher. Afterall that fellow couldn't 
even restrain Sirius and James during his maurauder days.



I don't think it was that Lupin was a bad teacher.  I think it was more along the advanced level students lines, and the fact that Hermione and Cho weren't trying to produce Patronuses around Dementors who were making them hear their mother's death.  Cho and Hermione seem like they're pretty well adjusted girls with lots of strong, happy memories.  Plus, as Geo pointed out, they're extremely bright.  But Harrry was a.) younger (a 3rd year as opposed to a 5th year), and b.) trying to create his Patronus with a dementor nearby (or a boggart dementor, but same difference in this case).  

I also don't think that Lupin being unable to restrain Sirius and James during their school years is any indication of what kind of teacher he is- just that he caved easily to peer pressure at the time.  (Notice that while he can't completely restrain Sirius in OotP, Lupin is the only one that can get Sirius to do what he wants without too much argument- at least up to a point.)  Besides, let's put Fred and George on the same level as Sirius and James- even McGonagall, who is undoubtedly an excellent teacher, can't completely restrain those two!  A good teacher isn't always an excellent disciplinarian, and vice versa!  

Lissa