Harry's anger (was Re: Draco's anger.)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 122016



Pippin:
> > Harry seizes on the idea that Snape
> > engineered the failure of the occlumency lessons 

Eggplant:
> I've read the book several times and I still think Harry might 
have  been absolutely correct about that. Giving Snape every 
benefit of  the doubt if he was not downright sabotaging the 
lessons was at  least not teaching anywhere near as well as he 
was capable of, his  heart wasn't in it. 

Pippin: 
> > and goaded Sirius into leaving the
> > house, though Dumbledore tells him
> > that Snape is not to be blamed 
> > for those things. 
> 
> No, he only said Snape's goading was not the reason Sirius 
left the  house, he did not excuse Snape's crummy Occlumency 
lessons.<

Pippin:

Harry: Snape stopped giving me Occlumency lessons. He threw 
me out of his office.

Dumbledore: I am aware of it. I have already said that it was a 
mistake for me not to teach you myself, though I was sure at the 
time that nothing could have been more dangerous than to open 
your mind even further to Voldemort while in my presence --

Harry: Snape made it worse, my scar always hurt worse after 
lessons with him -- How do you know he wasn't trying to soften 
me up for Voldemort, make it easier for him to get inside my--

Dumbledore:I trust Severus Snape. But I forgot-- another old 
man's mistake--that some wounds run too deep for the healing.
--OOP ch 37

Pippin:

I agree that Harry has just reason to be angry at any number of 
people, especially Dumbledore. If your life depended on a 
wounded man being able to run a marathon, would you be angry 
at him for failing,  or should you be angrier at the person who 
could have done it for him and didn't?

Either  Snape was wrong to stop the lessons, in which  case 
they can't have been making Harry weaker  OR the lessons were 
harmful, in which case it wouldn't have been wrong to stop them. 
But Harry doesn't think it through, he's just determined to blame 
things on Snape. That's irrational, IMO.

Pippin