State of the DA (was:Fear as a Crime (Re: muggle baiting )

[colebiancardi]

No: HPFGUIDX 156276

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Mike" <mcrudele78 at ...> wrote:
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> 
> Occlumency. I'll bet that's what Snape thinks works better against 
> dementors. No need to conjure a *very* happy thought. Saves you from 
> their draining your energy and allows you to keep your situational 
> awareness. I'm sure that's what Voldemort does when he's around 
> them, he doesn't want to drive them away, he wants to plot with them.
> 
> 

colebiancardi:

I dunno.  To conjure a Patronus is supposed to be hard and
advanced(for a 5th year, Harry's examiner was pleased as punch when
Harry produced a Patronus.  

Snape states that Occlumency is an obscure branch of magic.  And it
seems that it requires total control over ones emotions, which, as we
all know, teenagers are nothing BUT a mass of emotions :)

but it could be one of the other ways to defeat a bunch of dementors
for Snape.  And I would think that Snape teaching Occlumency in DADA
would be skating on very thin ice, if that ever got back to LV somehow.

colebiancardi....
(thinking happy thoughts right now)