Who is the adult (Was: Who's to blame for Occlumency?)

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 100643

Darrin wrote:
> 
> But Snape is not 15. 
> 
> Snape knows more of the master plan than Harry does. 
> 
> Snape also owes Dumbledore a great deal.
> 
> And with all that, Snape chose to walk away from the lessons. He 
chose to 
> disobey a direct order from Dumbledore, knowing a great deal more 
about 
> what was at stake, over what Dumbledore admits was a teenage 
grudge.
> 
> Snape's hate for a man Harry barely remembers, and a man who 
certainly 
> had no influence on Harry's life, kept him from doing his job.
> 
> That is immaturity.
> 
> And Snape is not 15.


Potioncat:
This group seems to be in two camps: those who think canon implies 
Snape ended Occlumency lessons on his own because of the pensieve 
incident and those who think canon implies DD and Snape decided to 
end the lessons for some reason that may or may not have been 
related to the incident.  Neither side intends to budge.

DD didn't say it was a teenage grudge.  He said he forgot how deep 
scars can go. I think there is a lot for us to speculate on, but all 
in all, there is a lot we just don't know.  We don't know what 
really happened back at Hogwarts when Snape was a student and we 
don't know what happened when Snape and DD discussed the incident.
Potioncat