[HPforGrownups] Parenting Harry (was: Re: I don't like him much)

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 120190

-- imamommy at sbcglobal.net wrote:
> 
> But I don't see it as "demented mother hen," because I don't think 
> Snape's motivation is to teach or protect Harry.  I think it is to 
> punish him and keep him downtrodden.  

I don't.  If his only motive was to keep him downtrodden, then I
think Snape would be enjoying himself a lot more.



 
> Firstly, why didn't Snape turn Harry over to McGonagall?  Snape 
> didn't need to be involved in punishing him (and I'm sure MM would 
> have done an adequate job, even in his eyes).  I think Snape was 
> issuing vengeance, not discipline.


Well, it was a Slytherin who was attacked with mud by an invisible
Harry in Hogsmeade, and it was Snape that Draco ran to (whimpering
all the way, we may be sure) so it's not like Snape has no business
at all in the matter.  

What Snape wants to find out here is how Harry got into Hogsmeade in
the first place as he probably didn't just walk out the front doors. 
Snape suspects that Lupin is in cahoots with Sirius Black to deliver
the last of the Potters to him.  He's looking for some proof that
Lupin has made some suggestions to Harry about hidden passages and
the like.  The map, and those nicknames which he remembers from his
own student days, seems like a perfect "smoking gun" as who else but
Lupin could have given it to Harry?  ("did he get it from the
manufacturers?")

Of course Lupin talks his way out of it and gets himself and Harry
out the door ASAP.

In retrospect, Snape should have flooed Dumbledore rather than Lupin
but hindsight is 20-20 and Snape makes the same mistake at the
Shrieking Shack at the end of the book.  He's got something to prove
to Dumbledore and he's going to prove it no matter what.  

Magda


		
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