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

[annemehr]

No: HPFGUIDX 119968


 
> Betsy:
 
> Also, Snape was doing rather well at teaching Harry.  In the first 
> lesson, Harry threw Snape off with a stinging hex, and in the next 
> lesson Harry is able to enter into Snape's memories.  Of course the 
> lessons all went to hell in a handbasket when Harry snooped into 
> Snape's Pensieve.  But the refusal to continue teaching Harry lands 
> firmly on Snape's shoulders.  

Annemehr:
Actually, those lessons were apparently going rather badly, for
whatever reasons (I once posted all the reasons I could find for their
failure, and came up with five or six, I believe, two of which were
Harry and Snape).  But the Pensieve incident happened in April.  So,
Occlumency lessons every Monday from sometime in January to sometime
in April -- that's about three months, and we don't hear of any other
successes. 

Betsy:
(Frankly, I think Snape's response to Harry's snooping is a 
> bit bizzare.  Not the anger, but the refusal to continue the 
> lessons.  If anything was OoC, this was, and I hope to see more on it 
> in book 6.) 

Annemehr:
I believe it was Pippin who gave me an answer for this. Snape had been
very careful to put that memory in the Pensieve for the lessons,
apparently for good reason. But now, that memory is in Harry's head,
and bound to surface as one of the painful ones summoned by
Legilimency.  That could be a problem.

Annemehr