PS/SS chapters 13-15 post DH look

[Zara]

No: HPFGUIDX 181017

> PS/SS:
> Quite apart from wanting to win, Harry found that he had fewer 
> nightmares when he was tired out after training – p.216
> 
> Alla:
> 
> What is this supposed to mean? Connection weakens when Harry has 
> enough of exercise???? Why did nobody bother to tell him that 
> recipe?  Do we see something like this in the later books?

zgirnius:
The practice Snape assigns to Harry in OotP, as homework for the 
Occlumency lessons, and Harry never does, is, every night, to clear 
his mind before falling asleep. If a person is sufficiently tired, 
this may occur naturally if a person just falls into bed and sleeps 
like a log, rather than lying in bed wondering about the events of 
the day, etc. (And I can imagine the posts I would have been reading 
if Snape had made Harry exercise until he was exhausted as part of 
the lessons, haha!)

Though I imagine in the long term this wold just make someone tired, 
and make them susceptible during the day, as during Harry's History 
of Magic OWL.

> PS/SS:
> As he drew closer, he heard Quirrell's voice.
> No-no- not again please-
> It sounded as though somebody was threatening him. Harry moved 
> closer.
> All right – all right- he heard Quirrell's sob – p.246

> Alla:
> But was he really talking to Voldemort and Snape was never in that 
> classroom in the first place? DUH Alla, if it is so.
> 
> And if he was talking to Voldemort, is his sobbing sign that he was 
> trying to resist?

zgirnius:
I thought this was Voldemort after my first reading of the book. I 
don't think it necessarily means Quirrell was resisting. More likely, 
he was not getting things done fast enough to please Voldemort. (See, 
e. g., Draco Malfoy crying in bathrooms in HBP).