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

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 122423


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboyminn at y...> wrote:

Steve/bboyminn:
> Maybe Harry didn't want to reveal the memory of Hermione breaking 
into
> Snape's personal potions stores. Maybe Harry didn't want to reveal 
his
> feelings for Cho. Maybe Harry didn't want Snape seeing those very
> personal, intimate, and private things that randy teen boys do late 
at
> night when the curtains are drawn.
> 
> True, one can claim this was more incentive to learn Occlumency. If
> Harry didn't want them seen, then he should learn to shut them off.

Geoff:
Yes, but hang on a minute.....

'"You may use your wand to attempt to disarm me or defend yourself in 
any other way that you can think of," said Snape.
"And what are you going to do?" Harry asked, eyeing Snape's wand 
apprehensively.
"I am about to attempt to break into your mind," said Snape 
soflty. "We are going to see how well you resist. I have been told 
that you already have shown aptitude at resisting the Imperius curse. 
You will find that similar powers are needed for this... brace 
yourself, now. Legilimens!"
Snape had struck before Harry was ready, before he had even begun to 
summon any force of resistance. The office swam in front of his eyes 
and vanished; image after image was racing through his mind like a 
flickering film so vivid it blinded him to his surroundings.....

...Cho Chang was drawing nearer to him under the mistletoe...

No, said a voice inside Harry's head as the memory of Cho drew 
nearer, you're not watching that, you're not watching it, it's 
private -

..."did you mean to produce a Stinging Hex?" asked Snape coolly.
"No," said Harry bitterly, getting up from the floor.
"I thought not," said Snape, watching him closely. "You let me get in 
too far. You lost control."'

(OOTP "Occlumency" pp.471/72 UK edition)

Come on, Steve, you wrote: "If Harry didn't want them seen, then he 
should learn to shut them off."

For crying out loud, the boy is having his first (his FIRST) 
Occlumency lesson.

Snape hits him with the spell having told him little else than the 
power to resist is similar to rejecting the Imperius Curse and Harry 
has five or six memories at least pulled from his before he can 
summon up the powers to stop things - a bit like stopping a runaway 
horse for the first time; it's an acquired art and Snape hasn't given 
him advice about this. OK, he might be suddenly attacked at a later 
time by a Death eater (or even Voldemort) with powers of Legilmency 
but this is not the way to /start/ training him. You don't chuck a 
non-swimmer in the deep end and walk away.... 

What does Snape do then? Tells Harry he must remina focussed; he 
shouldn't waste time and energy shouting. Did he know he had been 
shouting? Canon doesn't reveal this until Snape chooses to.

He really doesn't advise Harry how to clear his mind but just moves 
in a second and third time and unearths another batch of memories.

He has used his greater knowledge to wrong foot Harry again. No 
wonder there is little love lost between them.