[HPforGrownups] Re: Apologies and responsibility

[Lawrence Carlin]

No: HPFGUIDX 139221

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> And now from post 139200, also in this thread...
> 
> Lady Indigo:
> > 1. Snape had important skills to teach Harry, and
> Harry never even
> tried to
> > tough these lessons out, in spite of how
> Dumbledore said they were
> > necessary.
> 
> Alla:
> 
> I submit that we don't know that anymore after HBP.
> Have you noticed
> that Dumbledore not only cheerfully calls Occlumency
> lessons a Fiasco
> But he does not even bother to teach Harry
> Occlumency anymore.
> 
> It seems to me that Occlumency may not be vital tool
> that Harry needs
> to defend Voldie.
> 
> 
> zgirnius now::
> I think this is another case where facts arising
> *after* the incident 
> are being used to explain Harry's action. I believe
> DD concluded 
> Occlumency was not going to be important after LV
> failed to possess 
> Harry at the MoM.
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Larry Now:

Calling these Occlumency sessions "lessons" is way too
kind to Snape. Imagine seeking out an instructor in
the Martial Arts. A good teacher will spend hours and
hours working with you on an almost infinate set of
techniques and movements; using his or her vast
experience to aid you in mastering these skills.

Now imagine a truly awful and abusive instructor. This
sort of bully will stand in front of you, command you
to defend yourself in any way you can, and then
proceed to pummel the tar out of you time after time
after time. All the while becomming more and more
frustrated that you are not trying. Maybe our
hypothetical student would at some point ask, through
a swollen mouth filled with shattered teeth, "master,
could you please teach me some Kung Fu so I could
defend myself, rather than merely telling me to defend
myself and then beating the crap out of me, please?"

Perhaps by fiasco Dumbledore refered not to the result
but the process itself. The process being a serial
abuser using the tutorial as an excuse to assault and
bully his least favorite pupil.

Larry


		
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