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

[darrin_burnett]

No: HPFGUIDX 100667


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> 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.


We know more than that. We know that Dumbledore is disappointed in 
Snape's performance, to the point where he believes he made a mistake 
putting him in charge of the job. He says Snape couldn't get over the past.

That means Snape didn't do the job. Whether he gave D-Dore the courtesy of 
a "resignation" by saying "I can't do it, Headmaster" or he just stopped, in spite 
of Lupin, Sirius and D-Dore's urgings really doesn't matter much, does it?

D-Dore defends Snape to Harry's rants up to a point, but doesn't let Snape off 
the hook for the Occlumency and really doesn't answer Harry when Harry 
points out that the lessons made Harry weaker, not stronger.

No one has yet answered what I find to be the key point. Snape is almost 40 . 
Harry is 15. Expecting equal behavior is not realistic.

Darrin