False Alarm? Was:Re: Adults "failing" Harry (was: Themes in OotP)

[annemehr]

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> 
> 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?

Annemehr:

WAIT! There wasn't time for it to make a difference!

Right after that scene, the next chapter starts, which is "Snape's
Worst Memory!"  The day after DD leaves, Umbridge tries to give Harry
Veritaserum, and they're interrupted by Fred and George's fireworks. 
That very night, Harry's having the corridor dream again and got all
the way into the prophecy room when two fireworks collide and wake him
up.  The next day is his next lesson, and he's dreading Snape seeing
how far he'd gotten in that last dream.  It also says:

"With a surge of guilt he realised that he had not practised
Occlumency once since their last lesson: there had been too much going
on since Dumbeldore had left; he was sure he would not have been able
to empty his mind even if he had tried." [OoP ch. 28]

That lesson never even happened; Harry did the Pensieve-dive instead.

The only thing I can't figure is that the day of the Veritaserum and
fireworks was apparently a day of classes, but Harry had Occlumency
the *next* day and I thought the lessons were on Mondays?

Annemehr