Adults "failing" Harry (was: Themes in OotP)

[dungrollin]

No: HPFGUIDX 119936


> SSSusan:
> Frankly, I DO think hearing it *directly* from DD rather than 
> through someone else might well have made a difference to Harry, 
> yes.  And that's partly because I'm proposing that the 
> communication from DD would have had to have included NOT JUST 
> that it's "really really really important," but, yes, also 
> something specific about how Voldy might have the capability of 
> feeding him not just actual images but *false* ones to trick him.  
> If I were Harry, I'd think that kind of specific [but-not-too-
> specific for The Order!] information would have scared me into 
> believing DD.  But maybe I'm wrong.  You've got a point about 
> Harry's curiosity after all....


Dungrollin:

Just remembered something in 'The Centaur and the Sneak' just after 
DD knocks out Fudge and the other chaps from the ministry, and 
before he disappears from his office with Fawkes :

"Listen to me, Harry," He said urgently.  "You must study Occlumency 
as hard as you can, do you understand me?  Do everything Professor 
Snape tells you and practise it particularly every night before 
sleeping so that you can close your mind to bad dreams - you will 
understand why soon enough, but you must promise me -"
The man called Dawlish was stirring.  Dumbeldore seized harry's 
wrist.
"Remember - close your mind -"

Didn't make much difference to Harry's attitude, did it?