More insight into Snape/Snape's challenge

[bookraptor11]

No: HPFGUIDX 68706

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "evangelina839" 
<evangelina839 at y...> wrote:
>I also remember the end of OoP, Dumbledore
> talking to 
> Harry about the room in the Department of Mysteries, "it contains a
> force that is at 
> once more wonderful and more terrible than death, than human
> intelligence, than the 
> forces of nature. <snip> it is the power held within that room that
> you possess in 
> such quantities and which Voldemort has not at all. <snip> In the
> end, it mattered 
> not that you could not close your mind. It was your heart that saved
> you." I was very 
> happy to read those lines, cause I felt like many parts of the rest
> of the book was 
> trying to tell Harry the opposite (particularly Snape with the
> Occlumency and 
> Hermione when Harry wanted to rush out and save Sirius) - that he
> should not act 
> directly upon the wishes of his heart, but stop for a minute and let
> his mind have a 
> say. 

I think that's a good insight.  Maybe with those learning Occlumency, 
each one has to find his/her own best way to do it, and that's the 
reason Dumbledore didn't insist on Snape continuing the lessons.  
What works for Snape does not work for Harry, and in fact trying to 
supress his emotions was having the opposite effect from the one 
intended.

Donna