Albus and Gellert/Voldemort's Power

[kamion53]

No: HPFGUIDX 182703

> Catlady wrote:
> <snip> Meanwhile, I want to know what Gellaert did to be expelled
> from Durmstrang, and how evil he actually was at the time. --


I don't think that Durmstrang, Beauxbatons and Hogwarts did differ that much on the concept of the Dark Arts.

The Dark Arst are more or less the Martial Arts of Muggles, and
although the high morality dictates only the use of it for self defense, every form of Martial Arts can get quite deadly. Durmstrang certainly was not an institute that trained the Wizarding variant of commando's S.E.A.L.s or Ninja's, otherwise it would not have been part of the fellowship that organized the TriWizard Tournement, but probably been persecuted by other Wizard schools or institutions. It's only in the movie it got the image a Wizardly Militairy School. Also we don't have much of a clue what DADA include during the time Merrythought was still teaching it, we only get the image of a curriculum that is lame by a curse and fraud by incompetence or handicapped teachers.

The best defense against an attack is to know how to attack. If DADA was in essence not more aggressive than the Expelliarmus-level
Harry performed so sublime, then where did a Molly Weasley, the example par exelance of a NON Dark Wizard learned her skills needed to go for the kill against Bellatrix? Obvious there are more deadly curses then A.K alone, Trixi and Molly exchange quite a lot before Bellatrix is hit deadly. And noone gets the characteristics in DH of the A.K. curse.

With judo and karate or kung fu one does not start with learning how to strangled an opponent, one starts with learning how to break a fall and catch ones own weight. It's, for as far as I know, only Draco's vindictive statement that Durmstarng doesn't teach the lame Defense Aginst the Dark Arts, but the Darks Arts themselves. And considering the state of education at Hogwarts, DADA is pretty lame. Another account that is as vindictive as that of Draco's, is by Rita Skeeter but this time against Durmstrang and by association against Dumbledore. I think Durmstrang just had a different style of teaching the subject of Dark Arts, maybe more aggresive, to learn the defense from the aggresion, but all within it's code and international accepted morals. The Hogwarts style might be more defense if taught correctly for seven years - the Umbridge method was never the
offical style what ever she said about the Ministry - but we see that
very many of the Hogwartians learned in the end the agression, starting from the defense, Flitwick, Sprout and McGonagall taking a lead in this.

So Hogwarts and Durmstrang just have different styles as different kung fu schools have different styles.

Now I wonder what the Beauxbaton style was, not pretty effective
consdering Fleur Delacour achievements.

kamion