Rampant Ingratitude, was Re:Lusting After Snape

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 129518

Amiable Dorsai wrote:
> > >OK, let's get a bit more concrete: Snape's attempt at teaching
> > Harry Occlumency left Harry more open to Voldemort than he was
> > before. Bad teaching.<
> >
> > Betsy replied:
> snip
>  Harry has his opinions, yes. But is his opinion ever confirmed?
> 
> Amiable Dorsai responded:
> Well, I don't know who would be a better authority than the person
it was actually happening to.
> 
> 
> Potioncat again:
> Harry thinks that the Occlumency lessons are making him more open to 
> LV's probing. We don't know that he is correct. Just like it looked 
> like Snape was hexing Harry's broom, but he wasn't.


Carol adds:
Not to mention that on his first encounter with Snape, he thought it
was Snape who was making his scar hurt. (Post hoc ergo propter hoc
fallacy.) I think something similar but more complex is happening
during the occlumency lessons. Harry's own desire to complete the
dream opens him up to Voldemort. Also he happens to have one of his
most intense visions or insights into Voldemort's mind and emotions
alsmost immediately after an occlumency lesson. so, from Harry's
perspective, it *seems* that Snape is opening his mind to Voldemort.
But if that were what occlumency does, Dumbledore would never have
insisted that Snape teach it and Harry take it. So I agree with
Potioncat. Harry is often wrong in his interpretation of events that
are happening to him or around him, and I think he's wrong in this
instance as well. 

As a sidenote:
Just because something is happening to me doesn't make me an authority
on the cause of that something. Otherwise I wouldn't have to ask a
doctor why my stomach aches (or whatever). I'd know because the cause
because the stomachache was happening to me. Doesn't happen that way,
unfortunately.

Carol, with apologies for not having read the whole thread