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

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 101111

Stephanie wrote :
> Harry wasn't a witness in the vision, he was in the snake -- 
> depending on who he was relaying the story to, he changed his POV to 
> assuage the situation. He told DD that he was *in* the snake. If 
> Voldemort could have Harry in the snake, feeling the emotions of the 
> snake:
(snip)
> According to DD, the attack on Arthur was proof of LV being able to 
> mentally manifest Harry into a physical action.

Del replies :
But as far as I can see, Harry was only in the snake, he wasn't the
snake itself. He was feeling everything the snake felt, but he wasn't
commanding it. To me, that read like the ultimate witnessing
experience : better than a book, better than a movie, here comes the
real-life experience, be inside somebody else's mind, feel as they
feel, do as they do. But just as you cannot direct characters in a
book or actors in a movie, Harry couldn't direct the snake, only
witness what was going on at the deepest level.

As we've seen at the end of OoP, there was a risk that LV would go
further than that and try and possess Harry, but it was a remote risk.

Del