The D.A. (Was: Responses to Marietta)

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 169322

 
> Montavilla47:
> We haven't even touched on the most incompetent thing that
> Hermione did--which was to leave the parchment tacked up in the
> room for Umbridge to find.  

Hickengruendler:

Did she? According to Umbridge, they needed evidence and the room 
provided it. Therefore I assumed the list simply appeared in the Room 
of Requirement, because Umbridge wanted to have it.
 
Montavilla:

> It's hard not to view Harry as a terrible leader here.  If you're 
going to ask
> people to risk their futures for you, you shouldn't just drop them 
as soon
> as they no longer seem necessary.  At the very least, you should 
groom and
> support a successor.

Hickengruendler:

What I especially didn't understand, was, that Harry honestly 
expected the DA members to appear in the battle at the end of HBP. 
Like, "I do not care about the DA anymore, but I sure expect everyone 
else to check their coins regularly". Anyway, since I suspect the 
climax of the series will be in Hogwarts, I think the DA was mostly a 
set up for this.
 
However, and in Harry's defense, he, too, is still a student and 
obviously does not know everything. Therefore it's only so much he 
can teach the other students in the DA. If they had a similar inept 
DADA teacher as Umbridge was, he might have restarted the group as 
well, but Snape was actually pretty capable, at least in the regard, 
that he wanted them to do magic and train the spells (I will not go 
into Snape's general teaching styule here again, even though I do 
think he was much better than in Potions).