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

[annemehr]

No: HPFGUIDX 119979


> Dungrollin again:
> 
> According to the Lexicon timeline, DD leaving the school, and the 
> last Occlumency lesson takes place some time in April, and the 
> vision of Sirius and the midnight outing to the ministry between the 
> 8th and 15th of June. I think that's plenty of time to pull one's 
> socks up. 

Annemehr:
On the one hand, yes, he had plenty of time to get some practice in. 
But on the other, if he couldn't or wouldn't do it (some of each, I
think) in three months with a teacher firing Legilimency at him, did
he ever expect to make any progress on his own?

Oh, all right, I concede the point. Dumbledore's entreaty ought to
have made him give it real effort even without a teacher.


> Dungrollin:
> (He also had Occlumency lessons on Wednesdays – check the lexicon 
> timeline)

Annemehr:
I was going by the beginning of ch. 24 where Snape says "You will
receive private lessons once a week[...]" and then "I will expect you
at six o'clock on Monday evening."  But then at the end of the first
lesson, he orders Harry back on Wednesday -- so, did Snape switch days
or add a day?