Who Will Teach Harry Occlumency

[Wanda Sherratt]

No: HPFGUIDX 73962

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, imhotep1 <imhotep1 at r...> wrote:

Around the same 
> time that Sirius went to Azkaban, Snape came to Hogwarts, and (I 
presume) 
> been more or less hiding there since.  I doubt he goes and 
socializes 
> over the holidays with the Malfoys or anything, and I don't think 
he has 
> any close relationships with the other Hogwarts staff, which means 
that 
> his life revolves around wrangling teenagers who mostly don't like 
him.  
> There's not much room for personal emotional growth left in there 
for 
> him.  It doesn't surprise me in the least that he responded like 
he did 
> to Harry.
> 
>
It's mean, but for me, one of the few funny moments on OotP came 
when Snape was getting fed up with Harry's lack of progress in 
Occlumency, and he says, "You do know why I am giving up my evenings 
to this tedious job?"  It was the fact that I just KNOW that Snape's 
evenings are probably not all that exciting anyway, but he just had 
this little air of self-importance when speaking, as if he were 
sacrificing all sorts of invitations to parties and the theatre in 
order to teach this ungrateful brat.  Of course, a quiet evening 
with a book is nothing to sneer at, either, and I'm sure would be 
much more pleasant for Snape than having to spend an hour with a 
sullen Harry.

Wanda

> 
> -imhotep1