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

[sophineclaire]

No: HPFGUIDX 67892

--- 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.
> 
>

I think the lessons were significant and necessary in many ways.
First of all, the lessons happen to teach Harry how to defend himself 
from attacks from V. 

Now I'm entering speculation territory:
Since Harry has been less than forthcoming in the past regarding his 
scar pains, the lessons could have been a covert way to see if 
Voldemort was lurking and up to no good in the vaguist of ways. Is it 
possible to anyone that the lessons could have also been a test to 
see if Voldemort could get to Harry though someone like Snape. 
Considering that V can summon his DE's though the darkmark, could V 
just do a check-up now and then to see what his DE's are actually up 
to.  

To me, having someone in Snape's position is more dangerous to both 
Harry and the Order then if DD taught Harry himself. Look, DD has 
both years and experience on his side and on top of that, V fears him 
( Though you can take that with whatever grain of salt you like).

Snape is a former follower of V who still has a connection of sorts 
with He-who-must-not-be-named. As smart and talented Snape apparently 
is, he does NOT have age and experience behind him. He is an 
emotionally stunted man with anger issues involving Potters and 
company. I'd say if V was tempted to check in on Snape during those 
lessons, especially when Snape was furious, he would have an almost 
immediate alternate root to Harry and access to any of the work that 
Snape has done on behalf of the order from Snape's own head.

See, I believe that DD was just too busy to deal with Harry. But I 
also think that Snape went to DD once he saw the Department of 
Mysteries in Harry's head and told DD the wizarding equivalent 
of "It's too late", to which DD replied " Just try one more time" and 
ate enough lemon drops to put an elephant into a diabetic coma out of 
anxiety.


-Sophineclaire