What if other teachers behaved like Snape?

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No: HPFGUIDX 101974

> Carol:
> OTOH, not having Harry's memories protected ought to have
> "facilitated" his efforts to protect them. 
 
I absolutely disagree with this.  All this accomplished, and 
logically could accomplish, is pain and humiliation.

> 
> I'm guessing that the method Snape is using to teach Harry is the
> method by which he himself was taught, presumably by Dumbledore, and
> it may well be the only way to learn it (which could explain why 
it's
> so rare). 

This is pure speculation and, in my opinion, relies on a belief in 
Snape's reasonableness that is entirely unfounded.


Being nice and
> respecting your student's feelings isn't going to prepare your 
student
> to deal with a murderous enemy who wants to invade his mind.

This is utterly and absolutely illogical.  By this reasoning the way 
to learn martial arts would be to endure broken bones day in and day 
out until you accidently found a way to block the blows.  The ONLY 
way to learn to defend yourself correctly is to go slow in an 
environment that carefully precludes forcing people beyond their 
limits too soon.  As I say, a logical approach would have been to 
give Harry a pensieve to make him more comfortable until he mastered 
the basic skills.

So what if Voldemort won't take this approach?  We are talking about 
the inculcation of skills and methods, not real world combat 
training.  You don't throw people into actual combat until they have 
the basic skills necessary to survive.  Yes, acquiring these skills 
isn't necessarily pleasant, but you don't acquire them by being 
forced from day one to defend yourself against full attacks by 
experts.

"Clear your mind!" Oh, that helps a lot Severus.  


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