Yet another defense of Snape's Occlumency lessons (long)

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No: HPFGUIDX 120079


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214"
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wrote:
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> > Dungrollin, previously:
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> Dungrollin:
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> snip.
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> IMO, all he can be accused of is being Snape.
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> 
> Alla:
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> IMO, that is plenty. :o)

Sue:

Okay, here is my opinion for whatever it's worth, and not a direct
reply to all these posts. I 
think it was a mistake, a big, big mistake, to ask Snape to do this
job in the first place. DD 
knows, has to know, that Snape and Harry hate each other. There was
no way this was 
going to work out, no matter how many breathing exercises or
whatever, Harry was given, 
if it was given by Snape. He knows occlumency and probably doesn't
have much patience 
with trying to explain it to someone who doesn't know it, no matter
who they are. And 
after five years of mutual hatred, he isn't going to be able to teach
Harry anything this 
important, no matter what he does. Harry could have managed it with
Dumbledore, whom 
he did trust, except that by that time, he was starting to be furious
with DD too. But if DD 
had said, "Empty your mind of emotions, " Harry would have asked,
"Okay, but how?" When 
Snape says it, his response is basically, "Get stuffed!"  He doesn't
see why he needs to 
learn this stuff and nobody has sat him down to explain it. Well,
Snape did explain it, but 
Harry wasn't listening and Snape really didn't care if he got the
point or not, as he didn't 
want to do the job in the first place.

Somebody needs to knock those two heads together and say, "Listen,
you two, you can 
hate each other all you want later, but right now you have to
co-operate, okay?"