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

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 "horridporrid03" <horridporrid03 at y...> wrote:

> Maybe because Harry wasn't trying? He never 
> did the homework Snape assigned. Of course
> he didn't lean anything. 

It must be more than that, Harry didn't need to do homework to 
master the Imperious Curse and according to Snape that's very 
similar to Occlumency. Even some very formidable characters, like 
the real Moody and Crouch Junior and Senior, find it very difficult 
to resist the Imperius Curse, it seems to take them years of effort 
to even win even a partial victory. Yet Harry learned how to  throw 
it off completely in just a few minutes in his very first lesson. 
There must be a reason he couldn't do the same with Occlumency and I 
think that reason is Snape. 

> Hell yeah, Harry was wrong. You read my 
> private journal and I'd throw a jar of
> cockroaches at you myself. 

Harry had every right to look at the Pensive because Snape was not
fighting fair. Snape was an adult and a skilled professor of magic 
and yet he took the precaution of removing his most embarrassing 
memories before they started to probe each others minds. Snape did 
NOT give Harry, who was just a school boy, the same opportunity and 
in fact when he found something humiliating, like the incident of 
the dog chasing him up a tree, rubbed Harry's nose in it. That seems 
cowardly to me. It's like the heavyweight boxing champion of the 
world putting on protective padding before fighting a little boy 
while the kid gets nothing.

Eggplant