Legilimens and Occlumens and Snape's Reasons

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No: HPFGUIDX 86066

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at y...> wrote:
> I think Snape was intentionally extracting painful memories from 
Harry
> so that Harry could get some idea of how Voldemort could use
> legilmency against him. (Also, of course, most of Harry's memories 
are
> unhappy, as we know from the difficulty he had finding one that 
would
> work for the Patronus charm.) Harry had to see the necessity for
> learning occlumency. Unfortunately, he let his distrust of Snape 
(and
> his desire to find out what was behind the door) interfere with the
> effectiveness of the lessons. If he had applied himself, he would 
have
> learned occlumency. But He didn't want to. And then he was drawn to
> the Pensieve and saw at least one of the memories Snape least 
wanted
> him to see--and the damage was done. Snape is proud and he detests
> Harry, but he isn't a dementor or an agent of Voldemort. There is
> always a reason for his actions--and his emotions.
> 
> Carol


I disagree. Some schools of thought in dog training use shock 
collars and negative response to get a dog to behave. Snape used 
Harry's worst memories to trigger a reaction of aversion inside 
Harry's head. Through this process, Snape was trying to make Harry 
learn to put up mental walls to keep Snape from gloating over 
Harry's memories. 

The scene where Harry uses the stinging hex to repel Snape seems 
interesting. Not only is Harry building walls of defense, but he 
fires back in offense. This, I believe is something NEW. That is why 
it surprised Snape so much. *Powers even LV does not even know* 
comes to mind....

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