Who is the adult (Was: Who's to blame for Occlumency?)

[rowena_grunnionffitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 100722

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" 
<dumbledore11214 at y...> wrote:

> Serves him right what? Could you please calrify? Serves him right 
> that he got possessed by Voldemort? Serves him right that he got 
> almost killed?

   Serves him right that he saw something that upset him. You now the 
saying' 'Eavesdroppers never hear anything good' well it certainly 
applied here.

> How do we know that? I think that with the right teacher Harry 
would 
> have been much more succesful with occlumency (Who knows, maybe he 
> indeed learned something from Snape too).

   Only if he wanted to learn and I'm afraid that Harry makes it very 
clear he doesn't want to learn occlumency if it means ending the 
dreams before he finds out what's behind the door. I'm not at all 
sure it would have made any difference at all if Dumbledore had been 
the one teaching him. Harry. Didn't. Want. To. Learn. So he didn't.
> 
> I am afraid it all comes back to Dumbledore's stupidity and Snape's 
> emotional defficiency first and foremost.

   More like back to Harry's stubborn independence. As somebody 
observed some time back shutting out the grownups and following his 
own instincts has always worked for Harry in the past. This time it 
doesn't. A salutory but expensive lesson. Obviously Harry is going to 
have to find a middle ground between complete obedience and complete 
independence. But then doesn't everybody?