[HPforGrownups] Re: Who is the adult (Was: Who's to blame for Occlumency?)

[Barb Roberts]

No: HPFGUIDX 100822


On Jun 10, 2004, at 11:59 PM, Batchevra at aol.com wrote:

>
>
>  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.

I sense that it's a set up.   It is possible that Snape is trying to 
get out of teaching occlumeny to Harry.  In real life, people do play 
these sorts of games in educational institutions, just to survive. 
(Teachers can be quite devious. Oh, yes.) And while, Snape doesn’t know 
that he would be called out during that particular lesson, the chances 
were more than good that eventually a lesson would be interrupted by an 
emergency.  (With Umbridge at Hogwarts, emergencies are the norm.) It 
is suspicious that out of all the dangerous memories that an adult spy 
would want hushed, we find Snape has placed an embarrassing incident 
from his adolescence.  What? Doesn’t he have a score of more dangerous 
memories? Instead we find an incident that is possibly more disturbing 
for Harry to witness than embarrassing to Snape to have revealed.  To 
me that was curious.  Who's the adult?  Snape, for he knows how to end 
the occulumency lessons, even if Harry can’t figure how to get out of 
them.  Is that a bad thing?  Not if Prof. Snape has come to the 
conclusion Harry's link to LV something beyond traditional occlumency 
skills.  And it may be that these lessons are hurting Harry more than 
they are helping him. So why blame Harry? Or Prof. Snape?


There have been several incidents between Harry and Prof. Snape where 
it seems that Snape was picking a fight on purpose. More games.  It’s 
as if he wants to make sure that Harry to hates him. The last fight in 
OoP was timed just as Prof. McGonagall arrives.  I think Prof. Snape 
knows that McGonagall is arriving.  I even think that he is on his way 
out to meet her and help her in.  (There is a surprising respect 
between these two.) He sees that Harry is being ganged up against.  He 
stops the fight.  Then he docks points from Harry, but not from he 
bullies? Is it fair? Perhaps.  He saves his image as the loyal 
Slytherin head of house, but stops any real harm to Harry. Harry gets 
rebuked for having a bad attitude (however understandable), and 
McGonagall is given an opportunity to award points to make point 
situation fairer.

Barbara (Ivogun), who is quit curious about Prof. Snape

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