Imperius Resistance and Occlumency was Harry's anger (was Re: Draco's anger.)

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Carol responds:
Looking in the Pensieve is not fighting back. It's violating Snape's
privacy. Fighting back is using a stinging hex or a Protego, both of
which Snape *praises* Harry for using, even though he did it
involuntarily.

Alla:

I must have missed the part,where Snape "praises" Harry for using a 
Stinging Hex.

"Did you mean to produce a Stinging Hex?" asked Snape cooly.
"No, said Harry bitterly, getting up from the floor.
" I thought not," said Snape contemptuously, "You let me get in too 
far. You lost control" - p.535, OOP.

Sounds to me that Snape is downplays Harry's success, at very least 
and it IS quite a success, unvoluntarily, or not.

He only practices Occlumency for the first time in his life and he 
only allowed Snape to see "flashes of it" Shouldn't Snape be more 
happy about it, if he was indeed teaching in good faith? I wonder.

 
Carrol:

He also tells him to fight back with his mind and he
won't need a wand. But Harry isn't listening, any more than he's
listening when Snape tells him to clear his mind of anger. 


Alla:

He does listen "I am trying, but you are not telling me how" - p.535

Do we get any explanation from Snape? 

"Manners, Potter"  Can I say  not helpful much?

Carol:
There is no need and no excuse for Harry's violating Snape's privacy
by entering the Pensieve. He should have fought back in the lessons
instead, as instructed. He was not being a warrior. He was being a 
spy against someone fighting on his own side.


Alla:

Of course, Harry was not a warrior there. He was supposedly learning 
a tough subject,even though war related from an instructor, who was 
treating him like an enemy, IMO only of course.


JMO,

Alla