Why Occlumency lessons failed?

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 116417


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "bluesqueak" <pipdowns at e...> 
wrote:
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> Really? This being the same Harry who was utterly and completely 
> satisfied with the few titbits about the Philosopher's Stone he got 
> in Book 1, and the same Harry who decided to leave guarding it up 
to 
> the teachers?


Alla:

It is also same Harry who had been completely satisfied with VERY 
uncomplete explanation, which Dumbledore gave him afterwards. It is 
also the same Harry, who  never ever questions what Dumbledore tells 
him at the end of the books (prior to OOP, of course)

Harry really does not ask much from the people he trusts (for plot 
reasons, of course, but still).



Pip!Squeak:
> Uh, yes. Harry does not respect Snape. Harry would have respected 
> Dumbledore. 
> 
> Except - since when does a fifteen year old student get to select 
> the school teachers himself? Dumbledore selected Snape as the 
> teacher for reasons that seemed good to him; *Harry* did not 
respect 
> Dumbledore's decision there. 


Alla:

Was anybody suggesting that Harry woud select teacher himself? No, 
just that Dumbledore should have done a better job of doing it.

I wish Harry would have this choice though. Maybe then things would 
turn out a lot differently, but again, what if, what if. :)

I won't even start about "reasons that seemed good for Dumbledore". 
It turned out that these reasons were not so good after all, right?