Occlumency lessons WAS: Slytherins come back WAS: Re: My Most Annoying Charact

[Annemehr]

No: HPFGUIDX 180391


> > Annemehr:
 
> > So, one answer we got:  Occlumency lessons did in fact open 
> Harry's 
> > mind further to Voldemort, and that's why DD wouldn't give them. 
> And 
> > when the scar link was open to Voldemort, there was pain.
> > <SNIP>
> 
> 
> Alla:
> 
> Well, no not really. Not to my knowledge I mean. If it was answered 
> to your satisfaction, that's good. I mean I said many times that 
OOP 
> is the book I know the worst, but Dumbledore's speech is one of the 
> few parts of it which I read and reread quite a few times.
> 
> Basically I cannot interpret "to open your mind further" as the 
fact 
> that it was necessarily opened ONLY during the lessons. I intepret 
> it as it could have been opened before lessons started by the 
> connection between Harry and Voldemort or as we know between pieces 
> of soul or whatever that was.
> 
> I mean, maybe it WAS opened during the lessons, but to me it is 
> ambiguous and that was my whole point.
> 
> JMO,
> 
> Alla
>

Annemehr:

Oh, I completely agree that Harry's mind wasn't ONLY opened during 
lessons.  We saw Harry's repeated dreams of the DoM door since the 
beginning of OoP.

But, Harry complained that Snape was making it *worse.*  And then 
Dumbledore said that Occlumency lessons opened Harry's mind 
*further.*  I take that as confirmation that the mind/soul bit link 
was stronger as a consequence of the lessons.  If this seems 
ambiguous to you, what other possible meaning do you take from 
Dumbledore's words?  Or do you just think DD may have been mistaken?

And just to be clear, judging by Harry's symptoms during OoP, I 
assert that the effect of opening Harry's mind happened during the 
lessons themselves, but also lingered afterward, which is why he 
generally had more symptoms all the time after the lessons started 
than he did before.

Annemehr,
supposing that this strengthening of the mind-tie between LV and 
Harry was due to the soul-bit being lodged right next to Harry's 
thoroughly legilimensed brain,

and wondering what kind of story it might have been had the soul-bit 
lodged in a scar over his heart instead...