How could Harry believe in the Dream ?

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No: HPFGUIDX 101890

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "delwynmarch" 
<delwynmarch at y...> wrote:
> 
> Let's say I have a favourite TV series, and each time it's rerun, I
> keep missing the very same episode (happened to me in RL, dead
> annoying :-) Well, it's not exactly that I miss the episode, it's 
just
> that I'm always interrupted sometime through it. But each time, I 
get
> to see a bit more of it. And then comes the day when I get to see
> almost all of it, and surprise ! My favourite character falls off a
> cliff and is considered dead.
> But wait ! I know that this episode was originally aired years ago,
> and that in the current episodes, my darling is alive. So of course 
I
> guess that he's going to be found in the last remaining minutes, 
right ?
> 
> So my question is this : Harry had been having the same dream for
> almost a year. Each time he sees a bit more of it, but it's always 
the
> same dream, down to the details. And one day he sees Sirius being
> tortured. But it's still the very same dream ! The same one that he
> had several months ago, he's just seen more of it. It's NOT AT ALL
> like the dream about Arthur Weasley, which came completely out of
> nowhere and wasn't related to anything he'd seen before. So how 
could
> Harry believe that this dream about Sirius was showing him something
> that was actually happening ?
> 
> Del

In your example of the television show, you, I'm assuming, aren't as 
emotionally attatched to your favorite character as Harry is to 
Sirius.  I'll allow that if Harry were able to emotionally detatch 
himself, he would have seen that he shouldn't believe his dream.  But 
as it was, he saw the adult who means the most to him being 
tortured.  I can excuse the fact that he wasn't thinking clearly in 
this case.  Besides, if Harry always reacted perfectly rationally, we 
wouldn't enjoy the series as much, would we?

MaggieB