Importance of Occlumency

[leggrachel]

No: HPFGUIDX 172444

Elvishooked:
> Wondering just why Dumbledore found it so important that Harry
> learn occlumency and thereby closing his mind to LV.

Goonie8803:
> I wondered the same thing, and this is what I came up with: Maybe
> because DD knew LV would eventually find out the connection was
> there, and use it to lure Harry to the Dept of Mysteries to save
> Sirius (who, of course, wasn't there yet), and therefore find the
> prophecy and take it, because LV couldn't get it himself, and no
> one else could get it for him.  And in DH, all the other people he really cared about were
> either with him, dead, or else in a place protected from LV and the
> Death Eaters.
<snip>
> But I also wondered: Why would LV re-open the connection, when he
> closed it for so long after the Dept of Mysteries battle?  You'd
> think he'd want to keep it closed so Harry couldn't know where the
> Horcruxes were.
<snip>


Leggrachel:
I don't think that LV purposely opened the connection. I think he was
cracking around the edges. Every time that Harry got flashes of what
was happening, LV was really angry, so it was *his* control that was
slipping.

As for why, the whole fiasco with Sirius and the DoM is why. LV was
able to plant images in Harry's mind, and Harry couldn't tell the
difference between the real visions and the fake ones. Not to mention, I think there was always the danger of LV being able to, even briefly, see what Harry was doing. I don't think LV could have stayed in Harry's mind for long, since that would have been painful (as seen in the end of OoP).


Leggrachel