THEORY: Unifying Occlumency Theory

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 116349


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Nora Renka" 
<nrenka at y...> wrote:

> The thing is, learning to really truly relax and have it hold up 
under testing, with variable amounts of pressure, is really and 
truly  extremely hard, and takes a very good teacher and a lot of 
time.  The> way not to learn is to take a beginner, tell him 
"Relax!", and then  hit him to see if he does.  If you repeat it 
enough, he might get one  time where he successfully 
absorbs/deflects the attack.  It's a  fluke.  He hasn't really
learned how to do it systematically.
> 
> Teaching relaxation requires (in my experience) a truly 
co-operative  model, where the amount of force starts very small, 
and is really  primarily an agent of feedback to both the teacher 
and student.   Student learns what force feels like in small 
amounts that can be  dealt with at first, and then you start to 
crank it up, over time.  
> [It *is* possible to learn just from being hit--but it, as I am
told by people far more experienced than myself, takes a lot 
longer, is  not much fun, and is the reason that they are now 
teaching--to make  sure no one else has to learn the way that 
they did.]
> 

Pippin:
I think you answered your own question here. They don't have the 
time to do the job right. The connection developed much more 
quickly than Dumbledore imagined. Though it's not, as you say, 
the method of choice,  Harry has shown an ability to master 
complex spells by the "Throw him in and hope he floats" method 
-- that's the way he learned to make a corporeal patronus.

 He was stalled for four weeks using the trust and patience 
method -- only able to make an indistinct vapor -- until he saw 
Malfoy's phony dementors at the Quidditch match. And though 
that was a fluke, he was able to make a corporeal patronus 
again when the real dementors attacked him. 

Anyway, Dumbledore could hardly expect Snape and Harry to 
develop enough trust and patience with each other to use that 
method in a short time.

Pippin
who should find the time to study Aikido again. Os!