Book 6 question: Who will be the mentor for Harry ?

[mrs_sonofgib]

No: HPFGUIDX 106532

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "paul_terzis" 
<paul_terzis at y...> wrote:

>     At last I manage to rest from the shipping war and enter to 
> the other front, the wizard war. Lets start, shall we? We have HP in 
> OOTP learning from AD that he is destined to kill or to be killed. 
> My immediate thought was how on earth  HP will be trained to kill. 
> We know that killing curses are part of the dark arts. We also 
> know that only Aurors from the light side of magic can use killing 
> curses or at least that was the trend to the first Voldermort War. So who 
> will train HP? The new DADA teacher? Taking also into 
> consideration the fact that killing curses require from the caster a rather 
> evil "approach" (you have to mean it) I still can't  define who 
> will take the responsibility to intruduce HP ,who is emotionally 
> vulnerable at this moment, to the Dark arts or to a certain 
> portion of them. Will this happen with the approval of AD, who is 
> dogmaticaly against dark arts, or in spite of him? Any thoughts my 
> friends?

Tina: 
Wow Paul, you really know how to get the ball rolling!  My thoughts: 
well, I've never really thought that Harry would just learn a bad 
enough curse and curse Voldemort to smithereens.  I don't think the 
world needs another powerful wizard with extensive knowledge of the 
dark arts.  

The prophecy says that only Harry could kill Voldemort but we are 
lead to believe that it is his 'something special' not tactical 
skills (although he has those...).  We know about the force that is 
inside him in such quantities that Voldemort couldn't stand to 
possess him.  This power and being in touch with it needs to be 
cultivated (as opposed to merely skills) and I can only see 
Dumbledore doing that for Harry.  I certainly see Lupin helping to 
train/mentor him.  I do think Hogwarts is due for another good DADA 
teacher so he/she could possibly be of assistance also.

~tina