[ SECRET POST #2473 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2473 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

If you can ride a pony, you can ride a horse.

No. Just... no. This is like saying that if you can drive a Volkswagon Beetle, you can drive an 18-wheeler. There's certainly an overlap in the basic skill set, but they're not the same thing and a pony is not a horse. But this is almost a moot point, because it's canon that Harry's previous experience riding a pony was NOT adequate preparation for riding a Damar horse, and she wasn't an expert rider by Damar standards. Yet within a matter of weeks, she becomes one.


And mounting the horse by yourself is the very first thing you learn in your very first horse riding lesson.

Uh huh. And mounting a quiet, biddable pony is different than getting yourself up on an eighteen hands high stallion, one ridden without stirrups or bridle per the book-- something that Harry was not able to do without help.


And, honestly, sometimes people are just naturally good at certain things, even if they've never done them before. It has something to do with the way their brains formed/developed during pregnancy. And yeah, I can think of at least four famous (historical) swordsmen who never touched a sword until they were in their teens or early twenties, had a seriously violent problem, and beat down the threat. THEN they were trained. So yeah, she very well *could* have just been good at it.

Did they go from never-held-a-sword-before to full-fledged top warrior in six weeks able to defeat trained opponents in a melee? Because that's what happens in the book. Come on, no amount of "naturally good" makes this scenario realistic and you're really stretching to try and make it so.