Forbidden Education

[Mira]

No: HPFGUIDX 141041

samwise_the_grey:
> And really, that's the appeal. People WANT to learn despite the 
> danger. Jews educated themselves in the ghettos. Not only because 
> they wanted knowledge but because it was a way to quietly rebel 
> against the Nazis and gave them a sense of normalacy. Kids go to 
> school, therefore I will go to school because I'm a kid. They
> saved themselves psychologically.

And in (some?) Communist camps each prisoner would
secretly teach his cell-mates something, whatever he
happened to know best.

Knowledge not only empowers but softens, straightens
and humanises. It might not be an accident that Lupin
is the only werewolf on the side of good (sorry,
ESE!Lupin shippers...), since he was the only werewolf
who was allowed access to education. Thus Dumbledore's
legacy lives on...

Mira