OoP - Responses to the Evil!Occlumens Snape theory

[darrin_burnett]

No: HPFGUIDX 66903

I wanted to answer the responses to the theory I put forward about how Snape 
could be deliberately opening Harry's mind to V-mort, rather than closing it.

Forgive me for not responding to people by name. I am at work and have 
limited time to do this.

* Snape is smarter than that. He wouldn't do the opposite of what was 
necessary, knowing that know-it-all Granger would figure it out.

Excellent point. My answer would be that Snape would simply blame Harry 
and in his plea to Dumbledore, say, "Look, he never pays attention to me, and 
he's doing it all wrong, and I resent, headmaster, you taking the word of a 
student, however talented she may allegedly be, over mine."

The other side is that this prophecy thing was VERY important to V-Mort, and 
he might have been demanding Snape take more risks than usual.

* The connection works differently and no matter how well Snape taught, nor 
how much Harry tried, conventional Occlumency wasn't working.

Another good point. But, I do wonder if D-Dore hadn't taken that into account, 
and therefore, notified Snape that it might be a problem. 

* Harry wasn't listening because he hates Snape.

This ties into the "Who Trusts Snape?" question. I don't know why Harry really 
should be expected to trust Snape. All he has is Dumbledore's word that 
Snape is on his side. 

He does know, from Quirrellmort, that Snape tried to save his life in PS/SS out 
of a debt , but  hey, Wormtail has a debt to Harry too, and I don't know if Harry 
should be trusting Wormtail.

Perhaps Harry will someday pay for not trusting Snape, but I don't see where 
Snape has encouraged a lot of trust, either.

It still bothers me that Harry was noticeably weaker after the lessons and that 
Snape insisted on the "Dark Lord" business.

Darrin