Who Will Teach Harry Occlumency

[sephora063]

No: HPFGUIDX 73869

I'll try and be civilabout my response here: SNAPE IS NOT PETTY OR
SMALL! 
Snape is independent, shrewd, cunning, highly witty and uses dry
humour that you obviously fail to understand. Albus Dumbledore trusts
him (and Dumbledore happens to be the greatest wizard alive), and so
does Hermione Granger who is always defending him, especially in OOTP,
and Hermione is probably the smartest little witch in Hogwarts!


You know, I think I have a love-hate relationship with Snape. I hate 
some of things that he does...but can't help enjoy it (grim, huh?). 
Snape is an onion. Complex and nasty. Again, he's bad good guy (on 
the good side, but pretty mean). Anyways, I have to disagree about 
Snape being petty and small. He is. There is no doubt about that. I 
think all of the books give some evidence of this, but I realize they 
can be ambigous (I like that because it makes him more multi-
dimensional). I know of one exact moment when Snape is particularly 
petty. The only time that Harry is able to fight off Snape's 
legilimens spell, he seems to be punished by Snape. After Harry's 
initial good atempt, he basically flounders because of his curiosity 
regarding what's in the Dept. of the Myst. Anyway, this incident. 
In "Seen and Unforeseen," Harry bursts out about Snape being a lap 
dog for Malfoy. Faced with this, it seems that Snape is happy or 
pleased about something. That's debatable. Pride about his job or 
pleased Harry has no idea. Whatever. I didn't understand why Harry 
was able to deflect the spell, but now I know that Snape had not 
fully cleared his own mind. Harry often fails at occlumency because 
he's angry at Snape, Cho, the world and he's curious. However, at 
this moment, Harry is able to fight off the spell and responds 
with "Protego." The legilimens spell is reversed and Harry is able to 
see some of Snape's memories. Upon the next try, Snape purposely 
casts the spell before Harry is able to set up his defenses. He 
doesn't count to three (ooh!), but starts on two. It's a small thing, 
but I don't think he gave Harry a real chance and he didn't want to. 
That's petty. It's also petty to bring this up, but only because it's 
petty to disregard it. Punishment for doing a good job...for once. 
-Sephora
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