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

[Batchevra at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 100942

In a message dated 6/11/04 8:00:28 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
willsonkmom at msn.com writes:

>But, to my real reply to this post:  Snape didn't just "leave the 
pensieve out where Harry could get to it."  Normally he takes his 
memories out, he teaches Harry, he puts them back.  On this day, an 
emergency came up, he told Harry to leave (He indicated the session 
was cancelled.)  and Snape rushed out to help the Slytherin who was 
stuffed in the toilet. (Don't let the humor of this overwhelm the 
seiousness of it.  Pretend it's an Gryffindor.)<

Personally, I would have laughed if it had been a Gryffindor and I like most 
Gryffindors. 

This wasn't the first emergency that Snape left the office while teaching 
Harry, if you recall, when Umbridge tried to evict Trelawney, Snape ran up the 
stairs. Harry took a moment and then followed. It would have been interesting if 
Harry had gone into the Pensieve at that time. But Harry had more of a 
curiousity about who screamed than what memories Snape had put in. I agree that 
Snape does help the Slytherins more than the Gryffindors, but I have no trouble 
with that, I have trouble with Snape being vindictive against Harry because of 
his father, not whether he takes points when they deserve it, or he does find 
them out of bounds. Harry knows this and he still went into the Pensieve 
because I do believe that Snape taunted Harry to do so.

Batchevra


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