BTW, not related to the plot much at all, but I think I get the point of the dungeonrun first year students can beat.
The mirror is set to show students their CEV, which Harry dismissed as “Themselves in some very desirable situation”. Is dismissed the right word? Eh, anyway, I don’t think the people Harry talked to quite managed to convey the magnitude of it to him.
Slytherin’s core insight, the thing his house if founded on, is that people become who they are supposed to be by pursuing their ambitions, or at least that is the opinion of Quirrel the teacher-persona. I don’t actually care if he truly believes that, because it just strikes me as an important truth.
The mirror tailors good and sound ambitions for people. Or at least it does for any student which has a CEV which could conceivably be achieved via their own efforts. And they are, after all, witches and wizards.
Putting it behind an obstacle course makes people value and pay attention to what it gives them. It is a really impressive piece of pedagoguery.
So basically, the entire thing isn’t about Voldemort at all. It’s about teaching. Wonder how much of slytherin house did this run? Because it obviously is the house that would benefit the most from it.
BTW, not related to the plot much at all, but I think I get the point of the dungeonrun first year students can beat.
The mirror is set to show students their CEV, which Harry dismissed as “Themselves in some very desirable situation”. Is dismissed the right word? Eh, anyway, I don’t think the people Harry talked to quite managed to convey the magnitude of it to him.
Slytherin’s core insight, the thing his house if founded on, is that people become who they are supposed to be by pursuing their ambitions, or at least that is the opinion of Quirrel the teacher-persona. I don’t actually care if he truly believes that, because it just strikes me as an important truth.
The mirror tailors good and sound ambitions for people. Or at least it does for any student which has a CEV which could conceivably be achieved via their own efforts. And they are, after all, witches and wizards.
Putting it behind an obstacle course makes people value and pay attention to what it gives them. It is a really impressive piece of pedagoguery.
So basically, the entire thing isn’t about Voldemort at all. It’s about teaching. Wonder how much of slytherin house did this run? Because it obviously is the house that would benefit the most from it.
“This mirror can help us get our Cutie Marks!!”
sorry