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In defense of the WC
g33k:
--- Quote from: LordDresden2 on September 27, 2022, 04:33:07 AM --- ... The vocational school model doesn't work for Wizard training ... I'm sure you could teach some of the basics in a group-class setting ...
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You may be right. But that sort of thing still gives you a huge leg up in total hours needed from a teacher.
Remember -- Harry started Molly's lessons as weekend-only (plus some homework). Presumably, he could have managed *three* apprentices with that level of time-commitment (and shared another apprentice with another teaching-wizard, if he took no days off).
Undoubtedly, he'd need to put in more time, eventually.
But the traditional (Master/Prentice) relationship is not the only viable way.
Tinfoil hat:
--- Quote from: g33k on September 29, 2022, 03:14:27 PM ---You may be right. But that sort of thing still gives you a huge leg up in total hours needed from a teacher.
Remember -- Harry started Molly's lessons as weekend-only (plus some homework). Presumably, he could have managed *three* apprentices with that level of time-commitment (and shared another apprentice with another teaching-wizard, if he took no days off).
Undoubtedly, he'd need to put in more time, eventually.
But the traditional (Master/Prentice) relationship is not the only viable way.
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I think it is you are overlooking something. In an apprenticeship the master has to guard , support their students sure, but in wizards relationship the master has to cater to the students unique needs. If the master overlooks the student you have a half trained wizard who is likely to go warlock.
The other beings training wizards might not be a solution. Some of this things dont adhere to our moral code. Lea's training of molly was not healthy. River shoulders may work but what will his people say. Will they accept their secrets being given to mortals.
Other beings may want payment. Supernatural beings dont do things for free. What will the price be. Remember the price always comes due
Conspiracy Theorist:
I think we can safely rule ou on line learning.
Tinfoil hat:
--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on September 30, 2022, 12:02:08 PM ---I think we can safely rule ou on line learning.
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Wait it could work
Imagine harry shouting instruction to paranoid gary who passes it on to a friend/sibling or parent who shouts it to their kid. Great game of broken telephone
g33k:
--- Quote from: LordDresden2 on September 27, 2022, 04:07:39 AM ---I doubt that very seriously. He was a Chicago area warlock who had been captured, after doing a lot of nasty local damage, Harry was there because he was the Warden of Chicago. I don't think there was any 'hand picking' going on.
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I'm pretty sure he was from Korea, and the Merlin had him brought to Chicago specifically as a message to Harry.
In the opening scene of PG, the boy "screamed and ranted in Korean" (presumably, his native tongue).
In the middle of chapter 2, Harry asks Eb, "Is that why it happened here? Why come to Chicago for an execution?"
If the kid had simply been a local, that wouldn't have been relevant; a Chicago-origin warlock in Chicago wouldn't have been worth asking about.
In Chapter 5 -- talking to Murphy -- Harry explicitly calls him "the Korean kid."
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