It disturbs me that meeting an obviously deeply troubled boy, DD defaults to proving that he's the No. 1 scary badass mofo in the room.
Dumbles took a very different tack with Harry, playing the more passive-aggressive "kindly old POWERFUL man" trip. So in a sense he must know he fucked up with Tom, and it sucks that he wasn't man enough to fully admit his part to play in creating Lord Voldemort.
Unfortunately, Harry is so unthinking and unquestioning that it's hard to believe he's capable of functioning without Dumbledore around to tell him what to do. It's like Dumbledore decided to veer so far in the opposite direction in dealing with Harry that he's fucked him up as well. Hmm...we'll find out in Book 7 how this all plays out, I suppose.
I love the idea that Voldemort cursed the DADA position to ensure that Hogwarts would always have subpar instruction in the subject. He'd still get decent recruits from among the students who are homeschooled in the Dark Arts or motivated enough to study them in their spare time.
Which is now making me wonder about Snape's schoolbook, and Harry's obsession with it...I don't think it's a horcrux or anything like that, but it's definitely got some mojo of its own. Why didn't Severus hold on to it, since it clearly had a lot of his research in it? Did Voldemort take it from him at some point? How did Slughorn end up with it? And is its purpose to hone in on such students as would show an aptitude for the Dark Arts, or is it meant specifically to bring Harry's inner darkness to the fore? Questions, questions...
Besides, we see from this chapter that two teachers sharing a subject, which might be a way to get around the terms of the curse, is too much for him to handle.
Wow...yeah, that could have worked with regards to the DADA position. Great thinking, Anonymous L! :)
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Date: 2006-04-12 03:34 pm (UTC)Dumbles took a very different tack with Harry, playing the more passive-aggressive "kindly old POWERFUL man" trip. So in a sense he must know he fucked up with Tom, and it sucks that he wasn't man enough to fully admit his part to play in creating Lord Voldemort.
Unfortunately, Harry is so unthinking and unquestioning that it's hard to believe he's capable of functioning without Dumbledore around to tell him what to do. It's like Dumbledore decided to veer so far in the opposite direction in dealing with Harry that he's fucked him up as well. Hmm...we'll find out in Book 7 how this all plays out, I suppose.
I love the idea that Voldemort cursed the DADA position to ensure that Hogwarts would always have subpar instruction in the subject. He'd still get decent recruits from among the students who are homeschooled in the Dark Arts or motivated enough to study them in their spare time.
Which is now making me wonder about Snape's schoolbook, and Harry's obsession with it...I don't think it's a horcrux or anything like that, but it's definitely got some mojo of its own. Why didn't Severus hold on to it, since it clearly had a lot of his research in it? Did Voldemort take it from him at some point? How did Slughorn end up with it? And is its purpose to hone in on such students as would show an aptitude for the Dark Arts, or is it meant specifically to bring Harry's inner darkness to the fore? Questions, questions...
Besides, we see from this chapter that two teachers sharing a subject, which might be a way to get around the terms of the curse, is too much for him to handle.
Wow...yeah, that could have worked with regards to the DADA position. Great thinking, Anonymous L! :)