Snape's DE past

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 111491


> Magda:
>  snip.

>  Stopping the occlumency lessons did not leave
> > Harry any more vulnerable than he already was.
 
> Alla:
> 
> We don't know that. Yes, of course there is a big chance that he 
 still could have that vision, OR he might have accomplished 
better  results in Occlumency by that time.
> 
> I think it left him significantly more vulnerable

Pippin:

The trouble is,  he wanted to be vulnerable. Harry's only problem 
with the dreams as the exams approach is that he's so tired 
most nights that he can hardly get to sleep and when he does, 
he has stupid dreams about exams instead.

**The truth was that he was so intensely curious about what was 
hidden in that room full of dusty orbs that he was quite keen for 
the dreams to continue. [...] He also suspected that part of his 
mind -- the part that often spoke in Hermione's voice -- now felt 
guilty on the occasions it strayed down that corridor ending in the 
black door, and sought to wake him before he could reach the 
journey's end.** --OOP ch30.

If Harry had mastered occlumency to a greater degree, he would 
have used it to shut down that 'Hermione' voice, not Voldemort's 
intrusions.

Pippin