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Oct. 28th, 2007 09:51 pmRight this is mostly so I have a place for the quote but also because this quote shows most of my outlook on life... it is AWESOME
If there was one thing that offended Zacharias Smith, it was lack of intelligence.
He was willing to concede that some people didn’t know much about some things (from his experience at Hogwarts, “some people” amounted to “most of the other students”), but that ignorance could be corrected. If someone wanted to know something, they could ask. If someone realized they didn’t know something, and no one else did either, they could seek to remedy the lack themselves. There was a library upstairs, and minds residing in the professors’ heads, or at least most of them. Zacharias did not believe in native stupidity. It was only ignorance, what you got when other people didn’t care enough to educate themselves.
(from a HP fic called "Freedom and Not Peace" from the "Saving Connor" series by Lightning on the Wave)
If there was one thing that offended Zacharias Smith, it was lack of intelligence.
He was willing to concede that some people didn’t know much about some things (from his experience at Hogwarts, “some people” amounted to “most of the other students”), but that ignorance could be corrected. If someone wanted to know something, they could ask. If someone realized they didn’t know something, and no one else did either, they could seek to remedy the lack themselves. There was a library upstairs, and minds residing in the professors’ heads, or at least most of them. Zacharias did not believe in native stupidity. It was only ignorance, what you got when other people didn’t care enough to educate themselves.
(from a HP fic called "Freedom and Not Peace" from the "Saving Connor" series by Lightning on the Wave)