Who's to Blame/Ending Occulmency/Long

[rowena_grunnionffitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 100655

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dzeytoun" <dzeytoun at f...> 
wrote:

> Either way, although Harry bears some responsibility in this, 
neither 
> Snape nor Dumbledore can be excused from major mistakes.

   Snape is 'a superb occlumens', (he'd pretty much have to be to 
survive as a double agent in Voldy's camp) making him the obvious 
choice to teach Harry. DD may also have hoped that the forced 
intimacy of the process might lead to an improved relationship 
between the two, which might indeed have happened. Unfortunately it 
was emotionally impossible for Snape to continue the lessons after 
Harry had deliberately pried into his most private memories, DD 
understood this. And by then it was to late for Dumbledore to take 
over as he had already been forced out of Hogwarts. Presumably there 
was no other possible teacher still at the school and so the idea had 
to be dropped.

   I'm afraid this boils down to it being Harry's own fault. The 
reason he made no progress at occlumens is he wasn't trying and the 
reason the lessons ended was his own quite indefensible action of 
looking into Snape's pensieve. To expect SS to continue after that, 
after his most tender psychic wounds had been ripped open, is 
expecting too much of human nature.