OoP: Dd's treatment to Harry and bondage issues

[jenny_ravenclaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 63359

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Kathryn Cawte" <kcawte at b...> 
wrote:
 
> But he is treating him like a child when he keeps information from 
him 'to protect him'. Harry has a tendency to go off half-cocked and 
do stupid things 9in my opinion) but in this book he really has little 
choice. how can we expect him to make an informed decision when no one 
tells him what is going on. Yes he should have kept on with the 
lessons with Snape even though he didn't know how important they are, 
no he probably shouldn't have gone running off to the Department of 
Mysteries without telling anyone, but he's a 15 year old and 15 year 
olds resent being told to do things 'because I say so' which is pretty 
much what Harry is told for the entire book. If someone had said to 
him that Voldemort could try and manipulate him he'd have tried harder 
at the lessons but all he knew was he was seeing things that sometimes 
turned out to be helpful, so why stop the visions? If someone had said 
there's something in the Department of Mysteries that Voldemort wants 
very badly and he needs you to get it for him he'd at least have 
thought twice before running off to the very place the death Eaters 
wanted him to go.  Albus is guilty of an 'I know best' attitude in 
respect of Harry and it was responsible for a large chunk of the 
problems in this book.>

Wait a minute.  Dumbledore also needed to protect himself here.  He 
was aware of the fact that Voldemort and Harry were sharing emotions 
and sometimes even seeing things through each other.  If Dumbledore, 
throughout OoP, had spent time with Harry and spoke to him regularly, 
Dumbledore would have been a dead wizard, because Voldemort would have 
tried his damndest to access Dumbledore through Harry.  Remember when 
Harry felt an indescribable rage when he was in Dumbledore's office?  
Dumbledore could see it in Harry's face.  Harry has not yet, as we 
know, learned to control the connection he shares with Voldemort, and 
until he does, Dumbledore is taking risks every time he shares his own 
thoughts with Harry.

It was unfortunate that Dumbledore had to avoid Harry throughout OoP, 
but I do understand it.  

--jenny from ravenclaw, who never questions Dumbledore 
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