[HPforGrownups] Re: "Some won't like it".

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 130000

--- Steve <bboyminn at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Back to the original point, if Harry learning Occlumency was so
> all-fired important, then why didn't the people involved impress
> that
> fact on Harry until he knew it with absolute clarity and certainty?

I guess they figured that since this was Voldemort - the guy who
killed Cedric where he was standing right beside Harry, the guy who
tied Harry to a tombstone and took some of his blood for a rebirthing
spell, the guy who tortured him with crucio, the guy who ordered a
pack of (incompetent but Harry didn't know it at the time) DE's after
Harry, the guy whose wand regurgitated James and Lily and other dead
people who then gave Harry advice - that Harry wouldn't need to have
it spelled out in one-syllable words exactly why it was important to
keep Voldemort out of his mind.

I quite agree that Dumbledore can and should be criticized for giving
Harry the silent treatment and not letting anyone tell him anything
but I would have thought after what Harry had gone through at the end
of GOF he might have grasped the importance of not being open to
Voldemort without anyone dotting all the i's and crossing all the t's
for him.

Magda

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