How could Harry believe in the Dream ?

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 101894

I, Del, wrote :
> > 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 ?

MaggieB answered :
> 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.

Del replies :
You wanna bet ;-) ?

MaggieB also wrote :
> 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?

Del replies :
In fact, I did NOT enjoy that part of the book AT ALL. I kept
screaming in my head : "You've had that dream for months, how can you
believe it's happening now, and besides what would Sirius be doing at
the MoM ? Come on, WAKE UP !!" And I was SOOOOO mad at him for yelling
at Hermione when she tried to put some sense in him. *I* would have
*slapped* him to calm him down and force him to think rationally. I
was in fact severely disappointed she didn't do it.

Del, who thinks a friend shouldn't scare you into agreeing with him
anyway, but that's another matter.