Harry in NEWT Potions Class? (Was: Is Snape confident?)

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 86668

Carol:
McGonagall seemed to think he [Harry] had the makings of an
auror, and I think that's the direction we'll see him and Hermione 
and possibly even Ron going in Books 6 and 7. But I have another 
personal and highly uncanonical reason for thinking that Harry (and
Hermione, at least) will be in Snape's Potions class: I can't imagine
JKR depriving herself and us of the pleasure of reading the
Harry/Snape scenes. So unless Snape becomes the DADA teacher (in which
case he'll still have Harry as his student), Harry will be in advanced
potions. Maybe, to Snape's enormous dissatisfaction, Neville will be, too.
 
> Cassie Here: 
> 
> I wonder if Harry's new found, stronger hatred towards Snape will
block him 
> from achieving his goal to be an Auror.  I mean, Harry does blame
Snape for 
> Sirius's death. And I imagine he's not going to decide to forgive
and forget over 
> the summer.  I can imagine Harry wanting to drop NEWT Potions even
if he get 
> in just so he wouldn't have to be in the same room with Snape. 

Carol:
The narrator's comment, "He would never forgive Snape. Never!"
certainly reflects Harry's POV at the end of OoP, but it can't reflect
a permanent state of mind simply because Harry will have to come to
grips with Sirius's death and who is really responsible. He knows that
Snape did his best to prevent Sirius from going to the MoM and I think
he understands why Snape could not go there himself. He and Snape will
have to work together somehow in the last book, and I hope they'll
come a few steps closer to a mutual understanding (though not mutual
affection) in Book 6.

In any case, we can't see Snape from any POV except Harry's, and Snape
is an important character, so if we're going to have any Harry/Snape
interaction, Snape will have to continue to be Harry's teacher. (I'm
assuming that the class will be NEWTS potions and that Snape won't
teach DADA until either Book 7 or the end of VW2, but that's because I
think the DADA post will be Snape's reward for proving his loyalty to
Dumbledore.)

BTW, I'm wondering whether the Order will continue meeting at 12
Grimmauld Place now that Sirius is dead. If so, Harry may have to
interact with Snape there as well, or at least to overhear his
conversations with the other members. But that would only supplement,
not substitute for, the Snape/Harry interaction at Hogwarts.

Carol, who thinks that Harry really does want to be an auror and will
need to take NEWT Potions to achieve that goal