How could Harry believe in the Dream ?

[Wanda Sherratt]

No: HPFGUIDX 102177

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "delwynmarch" 
<delwynmarch at y...> wrote:
> Del replies :
> But Harry has been dreaming of that corridor for a whole year 
now ! Do
> you truly think that each time Harry dreams of it, LV actually 
goes in
> the MoM, down in the DoM, through the doors, down the alley in the
> Prophecy Room, each time a bit further but never to the end ? I 
don't
> think so. IT's OBVIOUS to me (I emphasize : to me only) that those
> dreams are NOT about *realtime* events.

Agreed.  This particular dream was not like any of the other dreams 
he had, either in OotP or previous books.  I think Harry's past 
experience FOOLED him into thinking he could trust all his dreams.  
The others had all been about something really happening, why 
wouldn't this be?  If he'd been less secretive about the dreams, 
someone might have pointed out to him that Voldemort *couldn't* be 
floating down the halls of the MoM nightly.  Whatever the dream was 
telling him, it wasn't a simple picture of real events.  But I think 
he was too convinced of his ability to "see" via his dreams, and 
wouldn't have been open to reason.  By the end, he was just in full 
panic, and swept his friends along with him, without any possibility 
of stopping to doubt or question.  But my question is, just what WAS 
the recurring dream?  If it was resulting from his mental connection 
with Voldemort, was he actually seeing *Voldemort's* dreams?  Or was 
this just a glimpse into a plan or preoccupation of Voldemort, that 
never changed and could get through to him in the night?

Wanda