You Taught Me That: Difference between revisions

# The student is sticking to the values that the mentor had taught him, before the mentor's [[Face Heel Turn]]. In this case, the mentor is a [[Broken Pedestal]].

# The mentor had been a bad example to the student, usually unintentionally, since the mentor's actions didn't seem to live up to his words. This is what prompted the student's Face Heel Turn, and he is currently exhibiting the same flawed behaviour that his mentor regrets. Expect [[What Have I Done|a lot of guilt]] on the mentor's part.

 

* An odd variation in that the "mentor" is consistently villainous: in the [[Harry Potter (film)|film]] of ''[[Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix]]'' (as in the book), Professor Umbridge makes Harry magically carve the words "I must not tell lies" on the back of his hand as a punishment for telling a [[Cassandra Truth]] (that Voldemort has returned). Towards the end, he and Hermione have lured Umbridge to a centaur herd, and when Umbridge pleas for Harry to tell the centaurs she means them no harm, he replies "I'm sorry, Professor, but I must not tell lies", while holding up the scarred hand.

** Harry does it again in the seventh film.

* In ''[[Discworld/Mort|Mort]]'', an [[Evil Vizier]] has a plan to poison his emperor but is outmaneuvered by the emperor and has to eat the poison himself. As he's dying he compliments the Emperor on what he's done and the Emperor says "I had a great teacher."

 

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