"Some won't like it".

[festuco]

No: HPFGUIDX 130104

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "eggplant107" <eggplant107 at h...>
wrote:
> "festuco" <vuurdame at x> wrote:
> 
> > That does not mean Harry is blameless
> > here. If he had used his brains, if
> > he had paid attention to his occlumency lessons 
> 
> Harry did use his brains. Snape, a man he despised and distrusted said
> his Occlumency lessons would strengthen his mental defenses, however
> Harry used his brains and found from direct experience that this was
> not true, it made him weaker. This discrepancy is never explained in
> book 5. 

Well, Harry did not do anything to find out more about how occlumency
works now, did he? Hermione did, and she told Ron to check up on Harry
because he would be weaker after lessons. I'm not going to quote this
again. I did so a couple of months ago.

As for the distrusting: he had no reason for that at all. So why that
is such a big point I cannot imagine. If anything it proves only how
easy Harry lets his personal feelings cloud his judgement, something
he really, really needs to get over. It is called growing up, and at
fifteen it is high time to take such a step.

Gerry