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**** Oh idk, maybe because he, Harry, was right some months earlier. Just a guess.
**** Harry and Snape are on the same side, but they don't like each other personally at all (not counting Snape's residual love and loyalty to Lily as liking Harry). If Harry has any option but Snape, he's going to take it. In hindsight, a stupid decision, but easy enough to see why he made it.
***** It's not even a stupid decision. Remember, until book 7 came out the entire fanbase was ''heavily'' divided on the question of what side Snape was really on. We didn't know for sure if he was actually loyal to Dumbledore or Voldemort. And Harry didn't know for sure either -- hell, book 5 is the book where Harry openly states that he thinks Snape is actually working for Voldemort (in the scene after one of the failed Occlumency lessons). Of ''course'' Harry doesn't try to send a message through Snape so long as he has any other possible option, and doesn't go back to Snape once he's escaped Umbridge. He has a very real suspicion that Snape might hand him over to Voldemort, and at this point in time and within the limits of what Harry can possibly know about, its not an unreasonable suspicion. Remember, Snape has deliberately been doing everything possible to give the impression of a guy who is genuinely loyal to Voldemort -- that's what "double agent" ''means''. We cannot fault Harry for believing what Snape wanted him to believe.
**** It made a lot of sense to me, too. Everyone forgets that at least once in EVERY book so far, there have been both MAJOR and minor points made that [[Adults Are Useless]]. And everyone seems to forget that Harry's abusive upbringing is a major sticking point with everything. Up until now, he's had to do everything HIMSELF. He's already broken down and used his last resort for help, and it APPEARED that no help was given. In my mind, I can clearly see this as a "screw you all, I'll do it myself", especially seeing as how that's literally what's been happening in all the previous books. Book 1, McGonagall didn't believe him, and the Trio went on their own. Book 2, Lockhart was absolutely USELESS and in fact would have got them all killed... my point made?
**** I myself always thought it made sense why Harry would believe his vision of Sirius to be real. Think about it -- just a few months ago, he had a nearly identical experience in seeing ''Mr. Weasley get bitten by an enormous snake''. That sentence in itself sounds so absurd, the only reason Harry's claims were taken seriously was that Dumbledore and the Order happened to know of Mr. Weasley's current position. Every other one of Harry's visions that followed proved to be real, too. Harry says it himself: "Why d'you think they want me to stop seeing these things? Because they're ''real'', Hermione!" Harry had ''also'' spent an entire semester being told by almost everybody that he was a liar, that he was mad, that what was happening to him was bullcrap. These facts alone would be plenty sufficient in fueling Harry's likelihood of believing that Sirius was really in danger. This all, of course, isn't to say that what Harry did wasn't extremely foolhardy and rash. But it does make his decision that much more understandable and less of a "Screw reason, my friend's in trouble".
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