[HPforGrownups] Re: Harry in NEWT Potions Class? (Was: Is Snape confident?)

[Kathryn Cawte]

No: HPFGUIDX 87671

Alla
>
> When I was talking about Severus' blame in Sirius' death I only meant
> his refusal to continue lessons.
>
> I just think that Harry is very last person to blame for Sirius
> death, even though he sure  could be blamed a little bit, but all
> adults in the Order should be put higher on such list.
> >
>

K

I think that the halting of the lessons made no real difference at all and
Snape would have been able to see that. Harry wouldn't have learnt whether
the lessons continued or not because he thought that the visions were
important and he wanted to keep having them. He didn't want to learn and did
none of the practice that he was set. Harry wasn't going to learn no matter
what - because he had no idea why he should.

I agree with your comments about Harry. Harry made the best decision
possible given the situation as he understood it - and that's all anyone can
be expected to do. The reason he didn't understand the true situation is the
same reason he didn't try in his lessons - he was being kept completely in
the dark. Despite my comments earlier about Harry being a child - he isn't a
baby. He is a reasonably intelligent teenager and it seems odd to me that
many of the adults want to treat him like a baby while still putting the
weight of having to save the world on his shoulders. No teenager has ever
existed who takes 'because I told you to' or 'just do it' as valid reasons
for doing *anything*. Dumbledore's been a headmaster for decades and a
teacher since at the very least the 1940s - surely he must have learnt
*something* about children in this time?

I would be quite amused if Sirius came back as a ghost purely to take Molly
aside and say 'I told you we should tell him!' :)

K