HRH and their Prefect badges-Pretty long

[junediamanti]

No: HPFGUIDX 72228

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Nicholina ODonnell" 
<arodonn at e...> wrote:
> 
> How do you know that Snape would have continued teaching him if he 
had ever bothered to ask or apologize?  I don't at all think that 
this is something we can take for granted.  Snape did, after all, 
tell him to leave his office and never come back again.  I know that 
this is something that might not be truly meant when said in the heat 
of passion.  However, as far as I know there is nothing to support 
this.  
> 
> That said, I do think Harry should have apologized.
> 
> Nicholina
> 
June replies:  I think an apology would have been smart too - though 
as the mum of a teenager, I am aware that you often wait a long time 
for one.

I think also that Snape actually implied a certain respect for Harry 
during the Occulumency lessons.  By treating his as an equal 
opponent - ie not giving him a chance to prepare, very little theory, 
straight into practice, hitting him as hard as possible with the 
spell - he might have been unpleasant but never patronising.  come to 
think of it he has always seemed to treat Harry more like an equal 
(albeit a highly disliked equal) than a kid.  He has never, ever made 
any allowances for Harry's age, background etc.  It seems to me that 
he has been more effective (either consciously or unconsciously) in 
preparing Harry mentally for conflicts with LV than many other 
teachers.

What do others think - is he surreptitiously grooming Harry against 
LV?

June