Is Harry afraid of Snape? Was : Who is the adult?

[dumbledore11214]

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<dumbledore11214 at y...> wrote:
> Alla: previously> 
> > > How do we know that? I think that with the right teacher Harry 
> > would 
> > > have been much more succesful with occlumency (Who knows, maybe 
> he 
> > > indeed learned something from Snape too).
> >
> 
> 
> Rowena: 
> >    Only if he wanted to learn and I'm afraid that Harry makes it 
> very 
> > clear he doesn't want to learn occlumency if it means ending the 
> > dreams before he finds out what's behind the door. I'm not at all 
> > sure it would have made any difference at all if Dumbledore had 
> been 
> > the one teaching him. Harry. Didn't. Want. To. Learn. So he 
didn't.
> > >
> 
> 
> Alla: 
> 
> Well, both of us can just speculate at this moment, don't we?
> 
> 
> I would say that Harry. Didn't. Want. To learn. From Snape. So he 
> didn't and it lead to disaster. He should have tried harder, but he 
> was not the one, who set the wheels of the said disaster in motion.
> 
>  
> 
> Rowena:
> 
> Obviously Harry is going to 
> > have to find a middle ground between complete obedience and 
> complete 
> > independence. But then doesn't everybody?
> 
> 
> Alla: Too true.



Alla:


Sorry for replying to my post, but i just thought of additional 
support fo the suggestion that Snape was wrong, wrong, wrong choice 
to teach Harry Occlumency.

We all know, that for the most times Snape is uncapable to bully 
Harry into submission, unlike poor Neville. Harry talks back, fights 
back, etc. But, but, I believe that in the OOP it becomes clear that 
Harry IS afraid of Snape and it hinders his learning too. Sure, he 
will talk back, but he is afraid nevertheless, I think.




"Shut the door behind you, Potter.
Harry did as he was told with the horrible feeling that he was 
imprisoning himselfas he did so." - OOP, p.529


"Harry threw him a  filthy look before doing as he was told. He did 
not like the idea of standing there with his eyes shut, while Snape 
faced him, carrying a wand" OOP, p.535


"I am working!" said Harry, nettled. "You try it sometime, Snape is 
trying to get inside your head, it is not a bundle of laughs, you 
know!" - OOP, p.554.


Sorry, but for all his good intentions, if there are any, dumbledore 
could not have found worst candidate to teach Harry.


Alla