Who's to Blame/Ending Occulmency was Re: [HPforGrownups] Harry as Kreacher

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>Alla:
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>I am putting the blame like that:
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>Of course Voldemort gets his fulll share of blame as number one, but 
>if we were to distribute the blame among the good guys I would put it 
>like that: Dumbledore - 60%, Snape - 25% and Harry - 15%.

Oryomai:
I love the exact percentages! *g*  At this point, I'd like to ask how Severus is to blame for Sirius' death.  Is the canon their argument when Severus came to tell Harry about Occulmency?  Like Dumbledore said, they're both far too old to let that get to them.  Is it when Severus told Sirius to say at Grimmuald Place when Harry went to the MoM?  Severus did that to keep Sirius *alive*.  I'm afraid I don't see how Severus is to blame.

On the subject of ending Occulmency lessons, what was Severus supposed to do?  Continue to try to teach Harry with Harry dragging his feet?  Alla said "stakes were too high, and he knew it".  Couldn't that mean Harry, too?  Harry knew how important him learning Occulmency was, yet he didn't.  Severus is not completely to blame for the ending of the lessons.  Harry didn't try very hard to learn.  Harry didn't try to go back to the lessons.  Both Harry and Severus are to blame.

As I've said before, I don't think the Trio are children anymore -- the loss of innocence changed them.  I think that in this looming war, they are equal with the adults they fight with.  They've seen death and torture, they've seen what happens to those who try to stop Voldemort.  Harry has fought and escaped the Dark Lord 3 times (I don't really count CoS or when he was a baby...he didn't fight when he was one) since he went to Hogwarts.  I know that no one agrees with me on this opinion of mine.  No one has to.  This is always countered with "They're only teenagers!"  Well, I don't believe that.  Whether or not you're an adult is not just about age, it's about experience and wisdom.  I think the Trio left childhood behind.

Oryomai
-Waiting for flames...