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

[darrin_burnett]

No: HPFGUIDX 100741

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Batchevra at a... wrote:
> In a message dated 6/10/04 8:51:45 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
> rowena_grunnionffitch at y... writes:
> 
>  >  Glad that Harry has seen one of the most humiliating moments of 
> his life? I don't think so. Harry's violation of Snape's privacy 
goes 
> way beyond a mere 'screw up'. Harry knew the pensieve held thoughts 
> Snape didn't want him to see, he deliberately intruded on the off 
> chance that they might contain the information he wants so badly 
> about the DoM and, like eavesdroppers, learned more than he wanted 
to 
> know. Serves him right.<
> 
> Snape left the Pensieve where Harry could get to it, also Snape 
showed Harry 
> that he put his thoughts into it. To someone like Harry who is 
curious and 
> will go to seek information wherever he can find it, to do that 
stuff in front of 
> him was like waving a blanket in front of a bull. Snape should not 
have left 
> the Pensieve where Harry could get to it and shouldn't have put his 
thoughts 
> into it while Harry was there. Snape is an adult.



Apparently, Snape doesn't have to be an adult. He can wallow in self-
pity, petty grudges, failures, and immature behavior and it will be 
written off as "complex."

But let a 15-year-old like Harry make a mistake and that's just 
heinous!

Might have been nice had Snape given Harry, whose got some memories 
of his own that are pretty awful, the same chance to remove some 
before they began, hm?

Darrin