[HPforGrownups] Professor Snape

[Kathryn Cawte]

No: HPFGUIDX 72208

Jencameby at aol.com
 
Will Professor Snape be punished for disobeying Dumbledore's orders, 
allowing his personal feelings for James get in the way of The Order? 
Is there an implecation that he could be?
 
 
 Me -

Past experience suggests not - he wasn't punished as far as we know for
telling the students about Remus' lycanthropy and that was a direct
disobeyal of Albus' orders. Besides I can't see how Albus could do it even
if he wanted to - Occulomancy was an Order thing and the order appears to be
a volunteer sort of thing so apart from chucking him out (and he seems to be
too valuable for that) there's nothing he can do and he can't punish him in
his capacity as headmaster of hogwarts because the lessons had nothing to do
with school business.

Besides Albus knew how Snape felt about Harry, he should have known better
than to rely on him to teach Harry in the first place. Albus may well feel
it's as much his fault as Sev's. At the very least Albus should have been
constantly checking with Severus about how the lessons were going.

K