How could Harry believe in the Dream ?

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 102035

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "delwynmarch" <delwynmarch at y...>
wrote:
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> ...edited...
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> So my question is this : Harry had been having the same dream for
> almost a year. ... 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


Asian_lovr2 (formerly bboy_mn):

Harry has had ample reason over the years to believe that some of his
dreams are indeed true. 

He dreamed about a giant and a flying motorcycle; and it was a memory
of a true event. In GoF, his dreams regarding Voldemort, Riddle, and
the Riddle mansion are all true. In OoP, his dream of Arthur's attack
was true. He realizes his dream of the corridor is real when, in
Occlumency lesson, he realizes that the corridor is the one leading to
the Dept of Mysteries. He dreams of Voldemort torturing Avery (again,
OotP), and in lessons with Snape, Snape confirms that Harry was
dreaming of a real place, a place that he otherwise couldn't have and
shouldn't have ever been or seen.

I think Harry has plenty of reasons, accumulated over years, to
believe that he has unique dreams that reflect real events, and most
of them are 'realtime' events; they occur as he dreams them.

Given that much direct and indirect evidence, I'm not surprise the he
believed the Sirius/DoM dream; everything in it was real with the
exception of one little detail.

Just a thought.

Steve