[HPforGrownups] Re: Who Will Teach Harry Occlumency

[Buttercup]

No: HPFGUIDX 73360


--- "Wendy St. John" <hebrideanblack at earthlink.net>
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Buttercup
> <cathio2002 at y...> 
> wrote:
> > I'm wondering if Dumbledore will now teach Harry
> > Occlumency. 
> 
> Now me (Wendy):
> 
> I hope very much that it *will* be Snape again. I
> agree that a side 
> effect of the occlumency lessons could be a stronger
> bond between 
> student and teacher - and that's *exactly* what I
> think Harry and 
> Snape need to have if they want to be successful in
> this battle 
> against Voldemort.  It
> would give the two 
> of them a forum for working out their differences,
> letting go of all 
> the baggage that keeps them from working together,
> and learning to 
> respect one another as I believe they should.

Me:

I agree with a lot of what you said. I love the scenes
with Harry and Snape--the tension between them. But I
have doubts about Dumbledore giving him the job again
because of the statement he made in his office, "I
thought Prof. Snape could overcome his feelings about
your father--I was wrong." And at the end of the book,
doesn't Harry say to himself that no matter what
Dumbledore says about Snape, he'll never forgive him.
He hates Snape even more, if that's possible. He
partly blames Snape for Sirus' death. This wall
between them may be too high to climb.

Buttercup


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Buttercup

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