Occlumency

[meltowne]

No: HPFGUIDX 75213

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "backstagemystic" <idcre at i...> 
wrote:
> Harry did not, for even one instant, consider the fact that he was 
> *endangering* Snape and the Order by peering at memories Snape did 
> not want him, and *Voldemort through him,* to see.
> 
> We know Snape touched his wand to his head at least three times.  
The 
> memory of being bullied by James and Sirius was one of them...what 
> might the other two have been?  Perhaps Order-sensitive information?
> 
> It also doesn't help that Harry brazenly calls Voldemort by his 
> name...the very act seems to draw Voldemort's attention to him (his 
> scar seemed to act up when he did so in front of Snape).
> 
> If Voldie was in fact lurking while Harry was probing, then it's 
fair 
> to say that Voldie, at the very least, now has a strong emotional 
> weapon he can use against Snape.

I've been thinking about the Pensieve scenes.  In the first, Harry 
enters DD's thoughts because is was left on a shelf in a cabinet with 
the door ajar.  DD claims that he placed it there hastily when Fudge 
arrived, but I don't really buy that.  If it really is true, why 
would he put it away hastily - perhaps Pensieves are contraband, and 
he didn't want Fudge to know he uses one?

Then there's Snape.  I don't buy that this was Snape's worst memory - 
remember, everything is from Harry's perspective, so maybe that's the 
chapter name because Harry assumes Snapes doesn't want him to see 
these memories.  But that begs the question of why Snape didn't put 
these memories into the Pensieve and lock it away even before Harry 
arrived?  I suspect it served Snapes purpose in 2 parts - it was 
information he wanted Harry to find, but also it would give him a 
reason to yell at him when he did view the memories.

If he knew Harry knew what the pensieve was, he should have put it 
away; if he didn't he had to know Harry would be curious.  Maybe 
Snape wanted Harry to understand why he hates James so much, and that 
he sees Harry becoming just like him.

Otherwise, we should consider WHY this memory was one he wanted to 
protect?  Was it the Owls, his treatment of Lily? 

Melinda