[HPforGrownups] Snape's liability

[MadameSSnape at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 100641

In a message dated 6/10/2004 3:50:29 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
littlekat10 at comcast.net writes:
Lee talked about Snape being Harry's nemesis.  I'm wondering who else could
have/should have taught Occlumancy.  McGonagal?  Dumbledore?  Flitwick?
Bins?  Anybody but Snape.  Or was Snape chosen because it would be harder
for Harry to learn, thus giving him a tougher situation in which to
practice?  I may not be making much sense and I'm sorry if I have muddied
the waters a bit.
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Sherrie here:

IIRC, there were only two options - Dumbledore and Snape.  Occlumency is "an 
obscure branch of magic", and it would appear that only those two are (known 
to be) skilled at it.

Sherrie
(who apologizes for lack of citations, but she's just lent her book to a new 
HP convert at work!)


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