Legilimens and Occlumens and Snape's Reasons

[Juju]

No: HPFGUIDX 86123

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "artcase" <artcase at y...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
> <justcarol67 at y...> wrote:
> > I think Snape was intentionally extracting painful memories from Harry
> > so that Harry could get some idea of how Voldemort could use
> > legilmency against him. 

> I disagree. Some schools of thought in dog training use shock 
> collars and negative response to get a dog to behave. Snape used 
> Harry's worst memories to trigger a reaction of aversion inside 
> Harry's head. Through this process, Snape was trying to make Harry 
> learn to put up mental walls to keep Snape from gloating over 
> Harry's memories. 

I don't believe that Snape hates Harry. I think Harry is just a 
constant painful reminder of things past for Snape (see my post 
about theory on Snape). Also, I truly believe we will see an important 
connection between the 2 of them in the future books.

Juju