Teaching Styles LONG

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 147852


> 
> Shaun:
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> 
> The only time Harry comes to a realisation that Hermione doesn't in 
> that passage is when he comes to the realisation - at virtually the 
> last second only while he is standing at the point that he saw 
> himself. That's a relatively profound realisation I suppose - but 
> he's right on the scene.
> 
> Hermione understands time travel perfectly well. If she didn't Harry 
> would have blown the entire operation more than once.

Finwitch:

Well, that's exactly what I meant of Harry's understanding. What
passed before that, was a learning process for Harry. Hermione knows
the rules and follows them. I don't know if it means she understands
TimeTravel.

I don't, however, see her understanding Harry's happy statement about
the patronus:*** 'I could do it because I'd already done it'.

'Harry, did anyone see you?'

'Don't you understand? I saw myself. I thought I was my dad. I saved
us, It's alright...'

'Harry, your Dad is -- you know -- dead...'

*******

Also, as much as Divination may seem to be nonsense to those who don't
understand it - well, it's like Zen, isn't it? Oh, and don't you think
it curious that Trelawney saw 'Grim' in Harry's cup-- (a big, black
dog that is) -- until the year Sirius died... She *sees* true, but
often misinterprets what she sees. She saw Sirius (animagus form)
until Harry's 5th year... I find it curious she predicted that 'one of
our number will leave us around easter' - which came true when
Hermione left. You may argue she caused Hermione to leave, *but* how
was she to know WHEN? You know, Hermione could have decided to prove
her fraud by choosing another time to leave, but she didn't.

As for Hermione not dealing with TimeTravel well - Percy Weasley had
12 OWLs so I conclude he had also a TimeTurner to cope with his
lessons. And quite apparently, Percy managed to take it to OWL-level.
So *someone* has done it. Hermione could not.

Trelawney is about acceptance (particularly your own mortality),
Firenze is about critical thinking (isn't certain about anything).
I don't know if Hermione could do with either of them... (What was
that thing about Horses? Hasn't she read in her FBaWTFT about
Centaurs? It was such a silly comment.)

In light of Harry's fthe prediction that Harry will die is a good
thing, because it means he won't go so dark as to be so cursed, caught
in half-life like Voldemort. He won't go and make Horcruxes. It tells
of the goodness of the soul: 'Always the innocent are the first to be
slain.'

Because all humans are mortal, being a human means that you are a
mortal and therefore will die? Saying it like that it's a sentence,
and many will ignore it.

Saying it Trelawney's way, it's the truth you must learn to cope with,
as much as you'd like to deny it. Firenze's critical thinking is
great, too. You know, the 'Mars is bright tonight.'

I think I much prefer Seamus' thorough analysis on the cup to
Hermione's outspoken: 'I don't see a grim in it!' Hermione didn't even
bother to try in the class at all, before Trelawney 'picked on her'.

Finwitch