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

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No: HPFGUIDX 119984


> 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.
>


Alla:

Wait, Anne. Why are you conceding? :o) I thought that you meant in 
your previous post that Harry did not have time to try and change 
his attitude DURING the lessons and before he dived in to Snape's 
pensieve.

I mean sure during those two months Harry could have continue 
clearing his mind, which he did not do, but if Dungrolin suggests 
that he was supposed to study Occlumency on his own, I disagree. 
Harry does not know how to study this subject. We are not even sure  
that Snape was teaching it properly, how was Harry supposed to learn 
it on its own?

Clear your mind does not equal learning Occlumency, IMO. It is just 
meditation exercises, which help you studying.

I am in full agreement with you that Dumbledore's words to Harry 
came waaay too late (I also think that they were not sufficient, but 
that is beyond the point of this post)