Snape Respects Harry Now

[Wanda Sherratt]

No: HPFGUIDX 74858

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "slgazit" <slgazit at s...> wrote:
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> 
> Harry acted on the base of incomplete information about the person
> he viewed as a father substitute.

He also KNEW that his information was incomplete; it was one of his 
main complaints throughout the year, that people were hiding things 
from him.  But instead of inspiring caution, he decided that what he 
knew was enough anyway and went off half-cocked. 

> He was also 15 years old.

So is Hermione, and she had enough brains to know that as you don't 
drive a car 100 mph on a foggy night on a winding mountain road, you 
shouldn't go running off into dangerous situations when you don't 
have a clear idea of what's going on.


As for blaming Snape, well, Harry felt that
> Snape goaded Sirius all along and that that goading might have
> induced him to leave the house on that fatefull night.

Oh, please.  Harry saw one incident in August.  Sirius met his death 
in June of the following year.  It's ridiculous to think that the 
two are connected, and we just don't know what he and Snape may have 
been talking about in the meantime, if they even talked at all.

 He may
> also have felt (and justly so) that Snape failed his task of
> teaching him Occlumency - first because he did not fully explain
> what the purpose was (no mention of LV trying to implant false
> visions to induce Harry to get to the MoM even though the OoP
> must have known this was a possibility);

I would think that that was just one of many possibilities.  And 
Harry didn't have to be told that Voldemort might use his access to 
Harry's mind to get him to do things  - he figured that out himself 
and suggested it to Snape during their conversation.

 second because he refused
> to teach him after the pensieve incident. So after months of
> Snape enjoying Harry's most embarassing and miserable memories, the
> teacher throws a fit and kicks the student out because he turned
> the tables on him.

There is absolutely no evidence that Snape was getting any enjoyment 
whatsoever out of Harry's memories.  Unlike Harry, he doesn't 
demonstrate the least curiosity about Harry's personal life.  Seeing 
Harry's memories was a part of the job, and if Harry had done his 
homework it would have ended a lot sooner, probably to the relief of 
both.
> 
 
> Nor could Snape when the positions were switched. Compare
> Harry's behaviour when Snape was experiencing his memories
> to Snape's behaviour when Harry was doing the same. Who was
> throwing cans at who, exactly?

Their positions were never switched.  Snape was doing what he was 
supposed to do; Harry was snooping where he had no business to be.
> 
Wanda