Who's the adult (was: Who's to blame for occlumency?)

[ladyramkin2000]

No: HPFGUIDX 100773

Batchevra wrote:

<Snape should not have left the pensieve where Harry could get at it..

Snape should not have done WHAT!!!! Does everything now have to be 
locked away on the off-chance that Harry might decide to indulge his 
curiosity about things that don't concern him.  
Malfoy had just come in with the news that Montague.,who had been 
missing for (I think) a fortnight, had turned up jammed inside a 
toilet on the fourth floor.  Snape, who must have been going grey 
over those two weeks, wondering how, as Head of House, he was going 
to explain to Montague's parents, rushes off to see if the kid is OK.
As far as we know, Snape has no idea that Harry knows what a Pensieve 
is, or what it's functions are.  Perhaps in hind-sight he should have 
bundled Harry out of the room and locked the door but his first 
thoughts must naturally have been of getting to his pupil. We know 
that leaving Harry alone with the Pensieve is like leaving an 
arsonist with a box of matches, but Severus didn't know that.  

Sylvia (who wonders if there is anything the poor sod doesn't get 
blamed for)