Dumbledore and TrustSnape rant

[susanbones2003]

No: HPFGUIDX 73351

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "bibphile" <bibphile at y...> 
wrote:
>snip:
 Snape left  Harry out in the cold by cutting off the lessons. Punish 
> the little  blighter but for goodness sakes. teach him.
> > Jennifer
> 
> I've got to disagee with you here.  Snape was wrong.  I'm not going 
> to argue with you on that.  But Harry knew Snape was member of the 
> order.  He should have gone to Snape.  If I'm not mistaken (and I 
> maay be)  Harry specifically wishes there were a member of the 
order 
> still at the school.  There was.
> 
> bibphile

I don't think we have anything to disagree about. I don't understand 
how DD could have miscalculated things so badly as to leave Harry and 
Snape at Hogwarts together and doing lessons. I guess he expected 
both to forget their past and bury the hatchet but we know that that 
didn't work for Snape and Sirius, two people who really had things 
between them to forget. Comparatively, Harry's problems with Snape 
were small but still enough to keep him from going to Snape. It won't 
make anyone feel any better but Ron has never believed Snape was 
a "good guy" and that has always eaten at Harry. Harry needed a 
sympathetic person to go to, someone who had not thrown him out of 
his office by hurling a jar of cockroaches at him. I am not mad at 
Snape. He's a complex messed-up guy who can't seem to leave the past 
in the past, but DD should have never left it to them to come to 
terms with each other. They are both adolescents in a manner of 
speaking and capable of great pig-headedness.
Jennifer