[HPforGrownups] Snape Teaching Occlemency

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No: HPFGUIDX 74005

In a message dated 7/29/03 3:22:08 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
cathio2002 at yahoo.com writes:


> 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.

I have to agree with that.  No matter how young and inexperienced Harry is, 
he knows that there's more riding on this.  (Blah, blah, blah...I have no 
sympathy for Harry in situations like this...).  He *knows* he needs to learn 
Occulmency, but he lets his hatred for Severus get in the way (hm..."hatred getting 
in the way"...who does that sound like?).  I know Harry's only 15.  I know 
he's a *boy* (no offense).  Apparently the way the Order of the Phoenix works is 
that Dumbledore says "jump" and they say "how high?".  Harry needs to learn 
how high to jump.

~*~*~Oryomai~*~*~


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