Ahtu_Flagg

Too late maybe, never too early.

I hope the story will have more of this, and less moping going forwards. You worry too much about making him seem less competent, and in need of growth than a story like this needs. He already has obstacles to take care of creating those pressures.

That's rich mr "what if the deadric lords placed me here with malicious intentions! O.o"...

For me, that would have been when I realized I was in the HP world, a wizard about to go to Hogwartz to learn under Flitwick and the rest, and that I was the Dragonborn. For him however, I doubt that would be the case.

Or it was weathering thousands of years that the others didn't, without having the demigod status of Alduin. I'm gonna bet on that.

Idd, a waste of time for the most part. He should just carve out his own little corner of the world, relax and work on what interests him.

Yeeees... But this is also seemingly good for him. So perhaps it's actually just good for him regardless. It's just him in an improved state, with his emotions in check. Something to strive for.

In other words, Flitwick's attempt to give him some perspective should have mattered far more than this.

I'm sorry to say I pretty much think so. What he needed was the wisdom, the logic and the perspective to see through the fallacies of what was keeping him down. Courage is but a byproduct of wisdom and motivation in my opinion. There's recklessness ofc, but there's really nothing good about it. Yet it can help you move forward, but you're then doing so blindly, taking huge and usually pointless risks. Sometimes it's necessary to take risks and be a little reckless - But I do not consider that brave per se, it's merely realizing that such has become your best option, ergo it's wisdom and logical reasoning.

Actually no, Dumbledore liked to use it for exactly that reason. Because you could remove memories from your head using it. If it could simply copy memories as well, I don't know. But it could certainly be used to contain the original memories.