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

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 100666

Darrin wrote:
> But Snape still abandoned his post at a crucial time and it 
contributed to the 
> mess at the end of OoP. Dumbledore should be blamed for allowing 
it to 
> happen. Harry should be blamed for not studying Occlumency better 
and of 
> course, Kreacher and V-Mort bear the most blame for manipulating 
the 
> situation in the first place.
> 
> But Snape put his hatred above the cause. He knows, maybe as much 
as any 
> Order member, what is at stake. He owes D-Dore big for that second 
chance. 
> 
> And he abandoned his post.
> 
> And like I said, he is not 15.


Potioncat:
We do not know that he abandoned his post.  We don't know who told 
DD or when he was told.  I could say "I believe" Snape and DD 
discussed it soon afterwards and decided to stop.  Or someone else 
could say, "I believe" DD only found out at the very end.  But we 
don't know who would be correct.  What the reader believes in this 
case affects how the reader sees the outcome or what the reader 
thinks about Snape.  But no one  really knows what happened.