The Vision : Harry wasn't sleeping

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 118458


I haven't been following very seriously what's been going on lately,
and any search on that subject predictably brings up tons of posts
unrelated to the matter of my post. So if it's already been discussed,
could someone point me to the thread ? Thanks !

Here goes : when Harry has his vision of Sirius emprisoned in the DoM,
during his History of Magic OWL, we have no real indication that he
was sleeping.

Sure we are told that Harry is very tired because he went to sleep
very late (Astronomy OWL) and he spent the morning revising his History.

But in the minutes before he has the vision, he's not falling asleep :
he's concentrating on remembering what he read in Hermione's notes.

The very last paragraph before the vision starts goes this way :

"*Think*, he told himself, his face in his hands, while all around him
quills scratched out never-ending answers and the sand trickled
through the hour-glass at the front..."

It doesn't seem obvious that Harry fell asleep after that. When Harry
had his snake vision, he first had bits of dreams : those were
unmistakable, because they made no sense. But here, Harry has no such
dreams. One moment he's desperately concentrating on remembering what
he read, and the next he's walking down the corridor, or so it seems.

And what makes things even odder is that this is precisely the
occurence when LV finally manages to get the whole vision through to
Harry. He's had innumerable occasions before (pretty much every
night), but he never managed. And yet this time, when Harry is
apparently *not* sleeping, LV manages to take the boy through the
whole vision.

Does anyone have any explanation for that ?

Del