Snape stopping the lessons (was: Dumbledore "failing" Harry )

[arrowsmithbt]

No: HPFGUIDX 119976


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Sydney" <sydpad at y...> wrote:
> 
>  Betsy wrote: 
> 
> > (Frankly, I think Snape's response to Harry's snooping is a 
> > bit bizzare.  Not the anger, but the refusal to continue the 
> > lessons.  If anything was OoC, this was, and I hope to see more on it 
> > in book 6.) 
> 
> I always assumed that Snape stopped because he couldn't trust himself
> not to hurt Harry next time they were locked in the dangerous intimacy
> of the lessons. 
> 
> This is what I took from it anyways;  it never occured to me that he
> was just being spiteful.  Surely he'd just have then cranked up the
> humiliation factor of the lessons themselves, not stopped them
> altogether?  And I agree with Betsy, it's out of character for Snape
> to be irresponsible.
> 

Just an interjection.
What many forget is that this Occlumency thing was not a formal lesson.
It was extra-curricular and Snape was only doing it because DD had
asked him to. In effect he was giving up his own free time on this
ungrateful wretch who was making no  attempt to comply with DD's
wishes and was poking his nose into Snape's private affairs to boot.

If I'd been Snape I'd have strangled the little creep.

Kneasy