Half blood prince disappointing

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 146310

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Harry Flashman" <harold.flashman at g...> 
wrote:
>
> 
> Harry's training with DD could have been more than just learning about
> Voldemorts horcruxes. In the cave DD tells harry that magic always
> leaves traces yet does not tell harry how to spot such traces, even
> though it is expected that harry will go in search of other horcruxes.
> DD does not impart any special wisdom/knowledge that Harry will need
> to overcome the immensely powerful defenses that Voldemort has put
> around his horcruxes, or help harry form relationships with other
> intelligent magical creatures who clearly respect DD and whose help
> Harry might need. Almost as if DD simply left harry to fend for
> himself, and unless DD is not really dead and will return in the next
> book to lead harry to the remaining horcruxes and train him to
> successfully fight (and kill) Voldemort, Harry will have a learn a lot
> himself and awfully fast.
> 

Pippin:
Beginning with GoF, the struggle between Harry and Voldemort has
become more and more psychological. If this
trend continues,  it will probably disappoint a lot of  people who 
want to read about wizards making things blow up <g>. 

It would take Harry four years of study to learn as much as the greenest 
Auror, and yet Voldemort can kill Aurors just as easily as anyone 
else, so magical training is not the answer.  But Dumbledore said
that Harry has a gift of flitting into Voldemort's mind undetected and
without harm to himself. I believe Dumbledore was playing to 
this strength in teaching Harry.

Voldemort is currently using occlumency to block Harry's access to
his mind. Yet we saw in HBP that Voldemort's emotional control is
not perfect -- in each pensieve episode, his control flickers a bit.
If Harry can gain control of his legilimens powers and take advantage
of such lapses,  he may be able  to hunt for the information he 
needs in the mind of his enemy.

But since even a legilimens cannot read a mind like a book, Harry
will need background if he is to have any hope of interpreting what
he sees in Voldemort's mind. Thus Harry, and the reader, need
a thorough grounding in Voldemort's past. With that information,
Harry may be able to find out where the horcruxes are from 
Voldemort himself!


Pippin