Snape Teaching Occlemency

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No: HPFGUIDX 73990

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "bookraptor11" <DMCourt11 at c...> 
wrote:
> ummm buttercup, in the following post everything you're commenting 
on 
> was written by sephora063, you snipped out my entire comment. I 
don't 
> want credit for something I didn't write.
> 
> thanks
> Donna
> 
> 
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Buttercup <cathio2002 at y...> 
> wrote:
> > 
> > --- bookraptor11 wrote:
> > 
> > > >...Harry is able to fight off the spell and
> > > responds 
> > > > with "Protego." The legilimens spell is reversed
> > > and Harry is able 
> > > to 
> > > > see some of Snape's memories. Upon the next try,
> > > Snape purposely 
> > > > casts the spell before Harry is able to set up his
> > > defenses. He 
> > > > doesn't count to three (ooh!), but starts on two.
> > > It's a small 
> > > thing, 
> > > > but I don't think he gave Harry a real chance and
> > > he didn't want 
> > > to. 
> > > > That's petty. It's also petty to bring this up,
> > > but only because 
> > > it's 
> > > > petty to disregard it. Punishment for doing a good
> > > job...for once. 
> > 
> > Buttercup:
> > 
> > I never understood why Snape started on the count of
> > three. The Dark Lord isn't going to say, "Okay Harry,
> > one, two, three, I'm reading your thoughts." Snape
> > should have taken Harry off guard every time. It would
> > have been better practice for Harry.
> > =====
> > Buttercup

What has never been brought up, at least I don't think it has, is why 
didn't Snape tell Harry how to close his mind, defend his mind, or 
clear his thoughts in the beginning of the lessons rather than just 
jumping into things (Harry's mind? Remember Snape always put his 
thoughts in a pensieve before they started, so this task must be hard 
even for someone who has experience doing it. Seems to me that Snape 
didn't care if Harry succeeded at closing his mind. 
Fran