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

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "eggplant9998"
<eggplant9998 at y...> wrote:

> You're saying you should fight an enemy in ways he is expecting, 
> well, I really don't think they teach that at West Point.

Well, they probably teach their pupils to master the subject which is
being taught, I hope. As I said before, peeping into the pensieve does
not help Harry at all in mastering Oclumency. Which is what everybody,
DD, Sirius, Lupin, tells him he absolutely must do. He does not. He
does not want to. 

Now, we can argue about Snape teaching methods (which I agree are not
really good, mildly expressed), but the pensieve scene has nothing to
do with Harry learning to defend his mind. 

Eggplant, this scene is not about a war, not about an enemy, this is
about Harry learning a very valuable skill. It is even explained to
him by Snape, that LV might try to influence his mind. Even a nitwit
(which Harry is not) should have been able to see that learning to
defend himself agains LV might have been a good idea. But, because of
his own actions, he has no defence at all against the real enemy, he
is lured to the Department of Mysteries, and Sirius dies. Maybe this
still would have happened if he had practiced, but then at least he
would have had the consolation for himself that he had tried. No he
will know for the rest of his life, that he did not even try to
prevent LV using him, though people almost begged him to take his
lessons serioulsy. 

Gerry