Growing into the Hero

[Zara]

No: HPFGUIDX 165463


> Bart:
> I think that Harry might have done better under Phinny Black's 
tutelage rather than Dumbledore; Phinny has (had? I still don't have 
the portrait business quite down yet) a way of getting people so angry 
at him that they do exactly what he wants them to do, just to show him 
up. Picture, "Well, I guess you can't be blamed if you are too stupid 
to learn Occlumancy." 

zgirnius:
I'm not so sure this is the case. It certainly works for some people (I 
know I've fallen for it in the past <g>), but I am less sure Harry is 
one of them. It seems to me this is Snape's approach to teaching as 
well, and with Harry and Neville it is not all that successful. 
(Hermione, on the other hand, is eager to start proving she is not a 
dunderhead from  Day One).