The 'Master-Apprentice'-Type Relationship

[alt_moderator]

Alternity dealt with themes of education - formal, informal, and via one-to-one tutelage. Which makes terrific sense when you're writing a story that encompasses the span of schooling for its young protagonists. But in Alternity, the scholarship relationships outside of the classroom offered opportunities for characters to work side by side - and often, secretly at cross-purposes.

Through the magic of my phenomenal alt-moderator powers, I have the pleasure of being able to introduce to this thread some very special guests. These individuals forged deep, close connections with each other in either actual or virtual master-apprentice relationships.

We invite you to ask any questions you may have - about their training, about their relationship, about their suspicions, about how their training prepared them for the fights they eventually fought, or lessons they learned that they would pass on - whatever you want to know! Time and space are immaterial here; the individuals who are participating are free to answer in whatever way they see fit, depending on what's called for in your questions.

Please welcome:

Antonin Dolohov
Justin Finch-Fletchley (Noble Arts)

Severus Snape
Hermione Granger (Potions)
and
Draco Malfoy (Occlumency)

Aurora Sinistra
Evelyn Longbottom (Astronomy)

Barty Crouch, Jr.
Hydra Lestrange (Death Eaterdom)

Savitha Desai
Ron Weasley (Auror training)

Poppy Pomfrey
Sally-Anne Perks (Healing Arts)

Comments

[alt_savitha]

I believed his greatest strength as an Auror would be exactly what I saw in him in the first place -- the ability to think a few steps ahead of everyone around him. I thought his greatest weakness would be impulsivity, his willingness to leap out into the void without think through those steps -- again, a Gryffindor trait, and certainly one I saw in Ron, although sometimes that's its own sort of strength.

Of course, his greatest weakness, in the end, was the hidden loyalties I never saw -- the disease at the root of the plant, and his willingness to turn on Our Lord and bring about his doom.

[alt_kingsley]

Strategy, nerve, and the ability to think a few steps ahead of everyone around him. Yes, I saw that in him, too.

All your chess lessons certain paid off, Arthur.

[alt_arthur]

So they did.

[alt_arthur]

And funny...what you regard as his 'greatest weakness,' I would consider part of his greatest strength.

And the source of my greatest pride.