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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" <dumbledore11214 at y...> 
wrote:
> 
> Snape gets my sympathy for the fact that he had the guts to leave 
> Voldemort and start fighting for redemption. (Kneasy can start 
> laughing now. :o))
> 
> I don't sympathise with him AT ALL for ending Occlumency lessons. No 
> matter what Harry did to him , stakes were too high and he knew it.
> 
> 
> Now, we may learn that Occlumency ended for some reasons unknown to 
> us yet, that will be different story.(Like maybe Harry already 
> learned it or something else).
>  With the facts I have now, I want to slap Snape when I reread those 
> pages.
> 

Not laughing, just an evil chuckle.
And redemption (if it happens) is still a long way off.

I've been entertained by this afternoon's posts, much more fun than
folk getting their knickers in a twist over the latest film. But I have to
say, Alla, just what could Snape *do* when Harry won't cooperate?
Imperio! him, perhaps?

Harry certainly won't listen to anything Snape has to say, no matter that
it's what DD wants. School discipline may be used to govern actions, but
directing thoughts is something else. If Harry won't practice, won't take 
any notice of DD or Snape then the whole thing is a waste of time. Because
basically it's all down to Harry -  he's the one that has to *learn* 
Occlumency, no-one can force it on him. 

Not only that, Harry deliberately misleads Snape. He pretends that he is 
trying, that he does want to master the subject, when in fact the opposite
is true. He wants to know more about that corridor, the door and what's 
behind it. 

So  what if Voldy is strolling through his mind? It's irrelevant to Harry,
Harry must be allowed to do what Harry wants to do. Anyone who tries
to stop him is being unfair and unreasonable. Harry is into instant
gratification and damn the consequences - they can always be blamed
on someone else.

Harry really  isn't a very nice person in  this book, but so far as he's
concerned he's being perfectly reasonable and it's all somebody else's
fault. I can't agree.  Harry is directly culpable for the death of Sirius.
Because he wouldn't listen to those in a position to know better.

Kneasy