That was totally what was so annoying in this book! The main character is clearly thinking of doing this thing that will be bad. She's thinking of doing it because she doesn't really see what the danger would be. So why don't people just tell her? And yet, they don't. They prefer to just say PROMISE ME YOU WON'T DO THIS! or YOU CAN'T DO IT WITHOUT LEARNING ABOUT IT! Everyone seems like they want to hold on to the information just so that they're the ones that have it or something.
This is one of the things I prefer about something like Avatar: The Last Airbender. Aang is destined to have an important role, but no one's hiding things from him. They're far more intelligently trying to teach him the skills he'll need. So Aang pretty much gets what he needs to learn before he can do things.
Harry Potter was very hilarious to me by the end because Harry spent the whole book trying to figure out what Dumbledore wanted him to do and never even considered that there's no reason that would lead to victory. In fact, given the facts it absolutely shouldn't have led to victory.
It just seems like such an obvious bad idea to deal with a kid that has a ton of power, more power than they have skill at this point in their lives, and deal with them this way. If you frustrated a teenager they're going to be more likely to want to use their own power, not less.
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Date: 2012-01-21 10:15 pm (UTC)This is one of the things I prefer about something like Avatar: The Last Airbender. Aang is destined to have an important role, but no one's hiding things from him. They're far more intelligently trying to teach him the skills he'll need. So Aang pretty much gets what he needs to learn before he can do things.
Harry Potter was very hilarious to me by the end because Harry spent the whole book trying to figure out what Dumbledore wanted him to do and never even considered that there's no reason that would lead to victory. In fact, given the facts it absolutely shouldn't have led to victory.
It just seems like such an obvious bad idea to deal with a kid that has a ton of power, more power than they have skill at this point in their lives, and deal with them this way. If you frustrated a teenager they're going to be more likely to want to use their own power, not less.