[HPforGrownups] Dumbledore vs Harry(was:Imperius Resistance and Occlumency)

[Charme]

No: HPFGUIDX 122932



>
>>>Eggplant:
>>Dumbledore is not dealing with a toddler, or some silly little twerp
> of a kid who just fell off a turnip truck; he may still be a boy but
> nobody on the planet has more experience in these matters than Harry
> has, and that includes Dumbledore.
>
> Betsy:

<snip>

> Harry is good.  Damn good.  But he *is* still just a boy, and there
> is magic he knows nothing of.  If he were to kick Dumbledore to the
> curb now, Voldemort would have his hide by the end of the first
> chapter of the next book.
>

Charme:

And there's canon to support Harry himself knows he's not as strong or adept 
magically as DD, at least not yet:

GoF: "At that moment, Harry fully understood for the first time why people 
said Dumbledore was the only wizard Voldemort had ever feared.  The look 
upon Dumbledore's face as he stared down at the unconscious form of Mad-Eye 
Moody was more terrible than Harry could have ever imagined. There was no 
benign smile upon Dumbledore's face, no twinkle in the eyes behind the 
spectacles.  There was cold fury in every line of the ancient face; a sense 
of power radiated from Dumbledore as though he were giving off burning 
heat."

OoP: "Harry turned to look where Neville was staring. Directly above them, 
framed in the doorway from the Brain Room, stood Albus Dumbledore, his wand 
aloft, his face white and furious. Harry felt a kind of electric charge 
surge through every particle of his body - they were saved."

In that same scene in the DoM, there's "Dumbledore's spell pulled him back 
as easily and effortlessly as though he had hooked him with an invisible 
line" and "Dumbledore flicked his own wand: the force of the spell that 
emanated from it was such that Harry, though shielded by his golden guard, 
felt his hair stand on end as it passed and this time Voldemort was forced 
to conjure a shining silver shield out of thin air to deflect it."  One 
would think by watching DD, Harry's observations are detailed enough that 
while he's being "saved", he's also learning what a powerful wizard DD 
really is.

Charme