OotP-Snape wanted Harry to see

[fitzchivalryhk]

No: HPFGUIDX 64661

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "joanna barra" 
<JOANNABARRA788 at M...> wrote:
> Have any of you thought that Snape might of wanted Harry to see his 
memory? 
> But not let on to Harry that he wanted him to? Snape left the room 
with 
> Draco knowing full well Harry was in there with the pensive full of 
his 
> memories. Why didn't Snape lock the pensive away?....I think he 
left it out, 
> not because he had no time to pack it away, but to show Harry, that 
he is 
> not the person that Sirius has made him out to be....and Harry's 
parents 
> weren't always in love with each other
> 
> 
> joanna
> x

I do not think Snape deliberately let Harry saw what was in the 
pensieve. 

Firstly, his violent response towards Harry suggested that this was 
something that he did not expect. Snape lost control in that scene, 
he went pale, his lips quivered, and he even threw things at Harry's 
direction. We only saw this kind of response once before, and it was 
in book 3 when Snape met Sirius Black again.

Secondly, Draco was the one who called Snape away. Snape couldn't 
have told Draco that he was teaching Harry potions, and then go on to 
lock the pensieve.  It would make the scene become even more 
suspicious, and Draco would guess that it was no remedial potions 
class at all. (If he had not already done so)

Fitz.