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

[cubfanbudwoman]

No: HPFGUIDX 119977


Sydney:
> > Second, the whole silent-treatment thing. Harry found it relaxing,
> > but personally I would have taken it as an extremely ominous
> > development, like the barking doberman that stops barking and 
> > starts intensely staring... yikes! I think that meant, Snape is 
> > not trusting himself to interact with Harry AT ALL. Snape doesn't 
> > seem like someone who does passive-aggression!


SSSusan:
Snipped most of this post, which I enjoyed very much.  Only had 
a "huh-uh" reaction to one bit of this section.  I agree that Harry 
might've been wise to have been more concerned by the silence than he 
was.  He was so thrilled to not be sneered at or humiliated that he 
enjoyed the silence and did well with his potion [interesting point, 
that].  But, as you say, silence from Snape could be ominous.  

Now, here's where I disagree.  Seeing's how I *do* think Snape 
deliberately dropped Harry's potion vial after his back was 
turned/Hermione had cleaned out Harry's cauldron, I'd disagree with 
your final sentence:  if I'm right, that would be *textbook* passive-
aggressive. :-)


Sydney:
> > 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.

Kneasy:
> 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.


SSSusan:
You mean that kid who is the *only* one who can vanquish Voldy? The 
only chance for the WW to be rid of Voldy's terror?  

You mean the teacher who's an Order member, who ostensibly believes 
that ending VW2 is the current primary goal in life?  

Yeah, those two.  

Come on, Kneasy.  It's not such a minor matter as an off-duty teacher 
being kind to a shirty little kid by offering to give up his time.  
It's an order to a soldier from a commanding officer, and it involves 
the pupil *most* important to the cause, whether you like him or 
not.  

Harry screwed up, and Snape had a right to be pissed over the 
Pensieve snooping and Harry's lack of trying.  But Snape screwed up, 
too, imo.  So did Dumbledore, big time.  However, it's wrong, imo, to 
diminish what was going on by reducing it to some voluntary extra-
curricular opportunity.

Siriusly Snapey Susan