Harry as Leader (was: What has Harry learned? (Re: Hans)

[phoenixgod2000]

No: HPFGUIDX 127439



> Betsy:
 
> In the classroom, Harry again, uses his sense of the dramatic to 
> bring the class in line.
> 
> " 'Oh *please*,' said Zacharias Smith, rolling his eyes and 
folding 
> his arms.  'I don't think *Expelliarmus* is exactly going to help 
us 
> against You-Know-Who, do you?'
> 'I've used it against him,' said Harry quietly. 'It saved my life 
> last June.'
> Smith opened his mouth stupidly.  The rest of the room was very 
> quiet.
> 'But if you think it's beneath you, you can leave,' Harry said.
> Smith did not move.  Nor did anybody else."  (ibid p. 392)
> 
> Faced with someone with the skills of a professional heckler, 
Harry 
> quietly and efficiently brings, not only Smith, but the rest of 
the 
> class into line.

This is one of my favorite scenes in the book. I laughed for about 
five minutes when I read how fast Harry shuts down Zack.  And for 
all of my problems with OOTP, I love that Harry is a good teacher. 
It adds something to his character and gives him a skill not a lot 
of fantasy heros have. Usually the advisors are the teachers, but 
not in Harry's case and I love it.
 
  But Harry's gang 
> lasts longer than the Order memembers do, and they put some 
serious 
> hurt on a few of the Death Eaters before they're taken down.  Not 
> bad for a panicked teenager and his group of Hogwarts weirdos.  
> (Anyone else get an Ender's Game vibe, here?)

Enders Game is one of my all time favorite novels and yes, I did get 
an ender wiggins vibe from Harry.  I hope it gets stronger. I love 
Ender.
 
> Hermione is definitely the planner; she's also the ideas gal. But 
> anytime she tries to get support for her cause, she fails rather 
> miserably.  (SPEW, anyone?)  Harry comes up with a hairbrained 
> scheme to storm the MoM, and he gets people *begging* to come 
> along.  Now *that's* leadership.

This paragraph made me laugh out loud. Do you mind if I paraphrase 
part of this for a fic of mine, Betsy?

Phoenixgod2000