Pensieves objectivity AND: Dumbledore's integrity

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No: HPFGUIDX 79629

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "slgazit" <slgazit at s...> wrote:
> I think Dumbledore wanted Snape to teach Harry for two reasons:
> 
> 1. Snape was the best for the job and also right there at Hogwarts
>    (as Dumbledore felt he himself could not do it).
> 
> 2. He was hoping that by more one-on-one contact, and by letting
>    Snape see what life has really been like for Harry, that the
>    relationship between Harry and Snape will improve. Since
>    both Harry and Snape are central to his battle plans, it
>    makes sense to try to improve their relationship.
>    Once the decision to have Snape teach was reached and Snape
>    accepted, it would be undermining his authority to have
>    another person act as intermediary.

Laura:

Those are good points, and they show again how DD failed to 
understand the people he was dealing with.  Before he allowed Snape 
to try to teach Harry anything one-on-one, he should have sat SS down 
for a long talk.  Snape has been tormenting and humiliating Harry 
ever since he first laid eyes on him.  Yes, he follows DD's orders to 
keep Harry alive, but he feels free to do whatever he wants to Harry 
as long as Harry survives.  After the scene in the hospital wing in 
PoA, it should have been crystal clear that Snape could not be 
rational about Harry.  And if there were any doubt, Snape's 
gratuitous interference with Harry's attempt to find DD in GoF (when 
Crouch Sr was in the Forest) should be conclusive.  Maybe, if DD had 
worked with Snape a bit, the latter would have been able to teach 
Harry.  But under the circumstances the attempt was doomed to failure 
before it even started.