[HPforGrownups] Re: Harry in NEWT Potions Class? (Was: Is Snape confident?)

[MadameSSnape at aol.com]

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In a message dated 12/27/2003 11:28:02 PM Eastern Standard Time, Oryomai 
(SnapesSlytherin at aol.com) writes:
I'm taking the chapter as what it says.  Severus stopped teaching 
Harry Occulmency because Harry looked in the Pensieve.  Given 
Severus' temperment, that doesn't sound out of character, does it?
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Sherrie here:

Not to mention that it was becoming obvious that it was an utter waste of 
time, trying to teach Harry something that Harry was making no effort whatever to 
learn.  Yes, Snape overreacted a bit - I'll not say he didn't.  But no amount 
of teaching is going to get a student to learn something he doesn't WANT to 
learn, doesn't practice, doesn't work at - and Harry didn't do any of the above.

And one would think that Snape would have a vested interest in having Harry 
learn to block the intrusions of Voldemort - what with Harry knowing that Snape 
is a member of the Order and all...  If Snape has returned as a spy (of which 
I'm honestly not fully convinced), that's not information to which he'd want 
the Dark Lord privy, if only so that he could go ON spying - and breathing.

Sherrie


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