Assuming that Harry’s Dark Side is integral to a significant proportion of plays(assuming rather than noting because my memory is patchy and I don’t remember if it was like this or if the dark side was more a background character than an oft-employed tool), perhaps we could infer from this that EY considers it to be an natural state of mind that also happens to flourish rarely enough that no character Harry will ever meet is likely to be able to correct his misperception of it. I’d then assume EY must have visited it himself to write it.
I wouldn’t be surprised if it was a magical dark side. But I’d be shocked if it was a magical dark side that could think better than a well trained adult.
Now that I think about it, he definitely has a source of insight that doesn’t obey natural ten-year-old cognitive constraints.
But then, it is pretty much the premise of this fic that Harry doesn’t obey “natural” ten-year old cognitive constraints because he is a prodigy by birth (with top-rate education that has allowed him to draw on his full mental potential). That premise accepted, there is nothing implausible about his dark side simply focusing his mental capabilities and allowing him to reach new levels of performance (at the cost of limiting processing in other areas such as empathy).
Assuming that Harry’s Dark Side is integral to a significant proportion of plays(assuming rather than noting because my memory is patchy and I don’t remember if it was like this or if the dark side was more a background character than an oft-employed tool), perhaps we could infer from this that EY considers it to be an natural state of mind that also happens to flourish rarely enough that no character Harry will ever meet is likely to be able to correct his misperception of it. I’d then assume EY must have visited it himself to write it.
I wouldn’t be surprised if it was a magical dark side. But I’d be shocked if it was a magical dark side that could think better than a well trained adult.
Now that I think about it, he definitely has a source of insight that doesn’t obey natural ten-year-old cognitive constraints.
But then, it is pretty much the premise of this fic that Harry doesn’t obey “natural” ten-year old cognitive constraints because he is a prodigy by birth (with top-rate education that has allowed him to draw on his full mental potential). That premise accepted, there is nothing implausible about his dark side simply focusing his mental capabilities and allowing him to reach new levels of performance (at the cost of limiting processing in other areas such as empathy).