Harry tells Ron he’s not fussed about Apparating, since he prefers flying.
Sure Apparating is extremely useful skill specially to somebody, whose life is threatened by a very powerful dark wizard? Imo, Harry not realizing it seems much less realistic than forgetting the definitions of the 3 D's, which are encompassed by the word "concentrate" anyway.
Hermione … studying books of Dark Magic and learning how to make the most horrible Potions. And taking copious notes and making practice samples. Well, you never know when those are going to come in handy.
You are joking, but in her&Harry's place I would be horribly frightened and eager to learn anything with the potential to help defeating V.. Learning DA appears essential to me. The potion V. used to revive himself & Horcruxes are both DA. In addition, Harry will have to fight V., who is an exceptional duelist with specialization in DA (he certainly used DA's curses in his fight with D. in the ministry). To have the slimmest chance of survival one has to know DA curses & their counter-curses thrown in a duel by either V. or his DE (they seemed to be pretty effective in MoM once members of OoTF arrived & they could start fighting realistically without killing all kids including Harry). In GoF Harry's life was saved due to pure luck, which wouldn't last long in real life. Why neither Harry nor Hermione think about learning both advanced defensive spells&curses (with their counter-curses)and how D. expects Harry to survive a battle with V. is absolutely beyond me and can exist only in a badly written fairy-tale. Junging by Sirius' words:"Snape was just this little oddball who was up to his eyes in the DA" and his reassuring Harry that James was OK since he "always hated the DA"(so he didn't study them at all then?or at least not untill his Auror training?) Sun Tzu's words
"So it is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle."
are unknown in the WW (even D.,who is an expert in DA,never told anything like that to Harry ). At present Harry seems to know only himself & the cost of mistake is too high.
Had somebody ever thougt about that aspect of the situation too?
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elanor -part 3
Date: 2006-07-15 04:29 pm (UTC)Sure Apparating is extremely useful skill specially to somebody, whose life is threatened by a very powerful dark wizard? Imo, Harry not realizing it seems much less realistic than forgetting the definitions of the 3 D's, which are encompassed by the word "concentrate" anyway.
Hermione … studying books of Dark Magic and learning how to make the most horrible Potions. And taking copious notes and making practice samples. Well, you never know when those are going to come in handy.
You are joking, but in her&Harry's place I would be horribly frightened and eager to learn anything with the potential to help defeating V..
Learning DA appears essential to me. The potion V. used to revive himself & Horcruxes are both DA. In addition, Harry will have to fight V., who is an exceptional duelist with specialization in DA (he certainly used DA's curses in his fight with D. in the ministry). To have the slimmest chance of survival one has to know DA curses & their counter-curses thrown in a duel by either V. or his DE (they seemed to be pretty effective in MoM once members of OoTF arrived & they could start fighting realistically without killing all kids including Harry).
In GoF Harry's life was saved due to pure luck, which wouldn't last long in real life. Why neither Harry nor Hermione think about learning both advanced defensive spells&curses (with their counter-curses)and how D. expects Harry to survive a battle with V. is absolutely beyond me and can exist only in a badly written fairy-tale.
Junging by Sirius' words:"Snape was just this little oddball who was up to his eyes in the DA" and his reassuring Harry that James was OK since he "always hated the DA"(so he didn't study them at all then?or at least not untill his Auror training?) Sun Tzu's words
"So it is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle."
are unknown in the WW (even D.,who is an expert in DA,never told anything like that to Harry ). At present Harry seems to know only himself & the cost of mistake is too high.
Had somebody ever thougt about that aspect of the situation too?