[HPforGrownups] OT: Drill Sargeant (with a tiny bit of ontopic talk...)

[Silverthorne]

No: HPFGUIDX 94649

In Harry's case...well, honestly I think it's partially snape's fault for it, he's so combative/angry he can't respect snape and can't learn.  If Snape hadn't singled him out and etc etc Harry might have been more willing to learn.  As it is, well, I think, though the armed forced experts can correct me, if Harry tried his attitude/reaction set with a Drill Sargeant, and he was a recruit as opposed to a student, he'd get kicked out.


{Silverthorne}

No...yoiu only get kicked out if you quit or fail the written exams and final exercises, actaully. What would happen (another parallel to HP in Snape and HArry terms!), is that you would get picked out even more, even more often, and the punishments would gte worse. So would the biting sarcasm, and so forth. And if that didn;t work, that's when the Sergeant starts going after the entire unit on the reluctant solider's behalf---an even bigger motivator. 'Cause if you buddies are getting it now because of you, you can bet if you don't straighten up right quick, they'll be doing a little 'correcting' of thier own...^^;

Thanks for the pyschology factor--that put it in much better terms than I could manage (and to think I actaully survived two semesters of it before I dropped out of college...*snor* so much for retention...)

Anne


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