"Some won't like it". The Scar Connection Implications.

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 130001

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Magda Grantwich
<mgrantwich at y...> wrote:
> --- Steve <bboyminn at y...> 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?

 
> Magda:
> 
> 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


bboyminn:

The question isn't whether or not Harry knows that Voldemort is a
badass, because nobody knows it better than Harry. The true question
is whether Harry fully understands the nature of the Scar Connection
and the extent to which Voldemort can exploit that connection in the
future. 

The two-way aspect of the Scar Connection is something new, something
that has just been discovered by Voldemort and realized by Dumbledore.
It has only been mentioned once to Harry, and little effort was made
during that one time to make Harry grasp just how serious this was and
make him fully aware of how it could be exploited.

Harry says himself that while the connection is not pleasant, it has
been helpful. That makes it pretty clear that he doesn't grasp the
extent to which Voldemort can use the connection to his own ends.
Harry has always had access to Voldemort, that's nothing new, what has
changed, and what Harry must be critically aware of, is that NOW
Voldemort has access to Harry.

So, it's the critical importance of Voldemort being able to exploit
the connection that must with absolute clarity be impressed upon
Harry, not just the existance of the connection or the general nature
of Voldemort.

One man's opinions.

Steve/bboyminn