Once a DE, always a DE? (was: Harry is ... brat)

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 67883

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "zebco606" <zebco606 at y...> 
wrote:
> When Snape went to the woods looking for Harry, he was rectifying a 
> horrible mistake. Snape took his memories of his youth and put them 
> in the pensieve to protect himself. Harry had no such protection. 
> Again and again Snape plumbed his worst memories. To say that the 
> cost was too high to Snape....It is still inexcusable. Snape quit 
> teaching Harry AFTER he saw Voldemort's vision of the door in 
> Harry's mind. He knew the danger. If it was TOO PAINFUL he should 
> have told Dumbledore and had someone else assigned to teach Harry. 
> Since Occlumency is a learned skill, he and Dumbledore cannot be 
the 
> only ones who could teach him.
>


Oh, absolutely. When I said stakes were too high, I meant the stakes 
in the war, NOT the stakes for Severus only. I think Severus was 
wrong, wrong, wrong for ending the lessons and not overcoming his 
feelings, but I think DUmbledore was many times more wrong for 
assigning him to teach Harry in the first place.

Alla