Why Occlumency lessons failed?

[eggplant9998]

No: HPFGUIDX 116430



"candlekicks" > Wrote:

> If DD had been up front with Harry to begin with,
> Harry would have known what was in the department
> of mysteries and not felt like  he had to continue
> the dreams. 

I agree. Voldemort can almost always tell if somebody is lying to 
him, only a person skilled in Occlumency could deceive him. Even the 
most loyal Death Eater would very much want to develop this skill 
because being able keep things hidden from a boss that powerful and 
that bad tempered could save your life. I don't think you can learn 
Occlumency from a book, you need a teacher and Snape is one of the 
best at it in the world. I think Snape's mission at the end of 
Goblet Of Fire was to teach Occlumency to as many Death Eaters as he 
could, it would be useful if there were plots among the Death Eaters 
Voldemort could not detect and Snape could get valuable intelligence 
information from flashes of memory from their minds during the 
lessons. 

But that touches on another question, why did Snape's Occlumency 
lessons to Harry seem to cause more harm than good? This is what the 
book says:

"'Snape made it worse, my scar always hurt worse after lessons with 
him -' Harry remembered Ron's thoughts on the subject and plunged 
on '-how do you know he wasn't trying to soften me up for Voldemort, 
make it easier for him to get inside my -' 
'I trust Severus Snape,' said Dumbledore simply 'But I forgot 
another old man's mistake -that some wounds run too deep for 
the healing. I thought Professor Snape could overcome his 
feelings about your father - I was wrong.'"

So Dumbledore trusts Snape but he admits he was wrong about the man 
at least once; and it wouldn't be the first time he placed too much 
trust in somebody. He must have trusted Quirrell, Lockheart, and the 
fake Moody too or he wouldn't have hired them. I think Snape 
couldn't stand handing something as powerful as Occlumency to 
someone he hated as much as Harry and that he (perhaps 
unconsciously) sabotaged the lessons to weaken Harry's resistance to 
Voldemort rather than strengthen them. I can't see why else Snape 
would always make Harry as angry as possible just before each lesson 
when having a tranquil  mind was vitally important if you had any 
hope of learning the subject. 

In the next book I don't see how Harry can live for 2 months with 
Voldemort attacking his mind, he's going to have to have proper 
Occlumency lessons while he is still at Privet Drive and lots of 
them. The only person I can think of to do that would be Dumbledore 
himself. He will probably ask Mr. Weasley for the best way to be 
inconspicuous with Muggles and show up on the Dursley's doorstep 
asking to see Harry wearing cowboy boots blue jeans with chaps, a 
fringed shirt that would be at home in a old Roy Rogers western and 
a ten gallon hat. 

 Eggplant