OoP clues?/Occlumency

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No: HPFGUIDX 158149

> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Clifford Vander Yacht" 
> <CliffVDY@> wrote:
> 
> > Based on facts as I know them, Snape taught Harry
> > wrong.
> 
> houyhnhnm:
> 
> Yet Dumbledore says to Harry at the end of OotP: 
> "I have already said that it was a mistake for me 
> not to teach you myself, though I was sure, at the 
> time, that nothing could have been more dangerous 
> than to open your mind even further to Voldemort 
> while in my presence--"
> 
> This suggests to me that Dumbledore was fully aware 
> of the methods Snape was using to teach Occlumency to 
> Harry and that they were the same methods Dumbldedore 
> would have employed himself had he been the one doing 
> the teaching.
> 

Alla:

I am really not sure how your suggestions follows from this quote - 
namely I don't see the implication that Dumbledore would have been 
using the same methods of teaching as Snape did. Maybe his objective 
would have been the same ( or not) as in what Harry eventually had 
to learn to do with his mind, but I am thinking that Dumbledore 
would have got there by very different means than Snape did.

And of course besides Dumbledore's admission that it indeed was a 
mistake, what I find interesting is that he tells Harry I **was** 
sure at the time, **not** I am sure. I am interpreting it that at 
the end of OOP Dumbledore is no longer sure of it. 

JMO,

Alla, who thinks that Dumbledore messed up so very royally with 
choice of the Occlumency teacher, but who is quite satisfied with 
Dumbledore acknowledging his mistake in OOP and HBP