Harry as Kreacher was Re: Snape at school was Should Harry have told on DJU

[kyntor70]

No: HPFGUIDX 100579

rowena states:

"And I'm afraid I sympathize with Snape's reasons for ending the
lessons. Harry knowingly invades SS's privacy in a hugely offensive
way. I'd have gone ballistic too. Frankly I think poor Snape deserves
some credit for not turning the kid into a spider and stepping on
him. ;D"


Kyntor replies:

It is real hard for me to sympathize with Snape for this.  Snape did 
the same exact thing when he was practicing legilimency against 
Harry.  Snape was burrowing down into Harry's mind for his most 
painful, most private memories.  Snape might feel he is justified in 
doing this since he is trying to teach Harry occlumency, but what he 
is not justified in doing is making fun of Harry when these memories 
affect Harry.

Since Harry was just starting to learn occlumency, Snape probably 
should have went after less controversal memories (like what Harry 
ate for breakfast) until Harry got a good idea of what he was doing.  
Once Harry had a base of knowledge built up, then Snape could go 
after the more personal memories.

Throwing someone in the deep end of the pool to try to teach them to 
swim is one thing, trying to deliberately drown them is something 
else.