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

[eggplant9998]

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"festuco" <vuurdame at x> wrote


> Snape apparantly does not think one 
> should start slow and steady and 
> take it from there. 

You want me to teach you to fly an airplane but you have never even 
seen one before, I say "to get you started I want you to fly this 
small single engine plane through the eye of a category 5 
hurricane." What is wrong with this picture?

Whatever Snape's initial theory was about the best way to teach 
Occlumency it should have very soon been obvious to him that it is 
not  working and changed his methods accordingly.  He didn't.

> Where exactly do you see Snape make fun
> of Harry? The only thing
> he asks is who owned the dog. 

There is no reason in the world Snape would care who owned the dog, 
but Harry knew why he asked the question, he wanted Harry to know he 
had seen it, and that's why Harry hated him.

> In violating Harry's privacy, 
> Snape is doing his job. 

And in violating Snape's privacy Harry is doing his job, fighting 
back.

> What Harry does has nothing to do with learning Occlumency

Occlumency is quite literally a mind game, you fight with what you 
have and capitalize on any mistake your opponent makes. Snape was 
stupid to let Harry know that he put very special memories in the 
pensive that he didn't want him to see. Snape was stupid to leave 
Harry alone with the very same pensive. Snape was REALLY stupid to 
expect he would do nothing about it right after he had stolen 
memories from Harry's mind and humiliated him. Perhaps next time 
Snape will be more careful because after mistakes like if Harry were 
a Death Eater Snape would be dead. I think Snape learned more from 
Harry than Harry learned from Snape.

> Imagine a scene in which McGonnagall 
> was teaching Draco and found him looking
> into the pensieve. Would you also think 
> Draco had a right to know what she put there? 

If McGonnagall had just looked into Draco's mind for his most 
embarrassing memories and then laughed at them and then if she had 
made the same series of colossal blunders that Snape had then yes, 
I'd tell Draco to go for it. However McGonnagall is not likely to do 
either of those things.

Eggplant