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

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 94672

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "cubfanbudwoman" <, 
> I will make one last feeble attempt to bring out a difference that 
I 
> think is KEY.  HRH & their class of Hogwarts students begin w/ 
Snape 
> at age **11** and the war is **NOT** yet on.  They are boarding 
> school students, not military academy students or enlistees.  No 
one 
> has **told** them that their lives are in danger and they damn well 
> better listen & learn this stuff because their *lives* depend on 
it.  
> When a person goes into the military, he or she is 1) older and 2) 
> *knows* his/her life depends upon listening & learning every detail.
> 
> Doesn't anybody else out there think this is an important 
difference 
> in the learning process?  That one must *understand* the mission in 
> order for the drill sergeant routine to be most effective?  
> Somebody...anybody...? :-|  [EnsTren, you may be getting at this 
> somewhat in your final paragraph....]
> 
> Siriusly Snapey Susan


Me, me, me. :o)Even if Dumbledore secretly believed that Voldie will 
come back all these years (that begs the question though why he hired 
those grossly incompetent DADA teachers, if he wanted to prepare 
chidren for upcoming war), Hogwarts is not an "auror" training 
school, it is a civilian institution and eleven year olds come there 
not to start their military training (although theyc an sure do it 
later, if they want to)

Alla