What if other teachers behaved like Snape?

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 101788

 
> Annemehr:
> It seems certain to me that Snape was able to choose to call up
> *painful* memories in general. Otherwise, we would have seen 
plenty of
> random boring and happy memories mixed in: Harry brushing his 
teeth,
> Harry doing homework, Harry flying...
> 
> And yes, Cho kissing Harry was a painful memory (at least in part)
> because of how extremely uneasy he felt at the time.
> 
> I don't mean this as an argument against the way Snape taught
> Occlumency (obviously, Harry would have more motivation to repel 
Snape
> when the memories were painful). It's more a point about what
> Legilimency might be able to do.
> 
Potioncat:
Well, could he go straight to certain memories or not?  How  would 
you look for a memory you didn't know about?

First off, we just don't know.  Second, we should go back to the 
Occlumency lessons and see if Snape directed the conversation before 
the session.  It seems to me, that those thoughts on the surface 
would be the ones that would be seen.  If Harry could empty his 
mind, Snape wouldn't see them.  Being around Snape gave him unhappy 
feelings which most likely, made upleasant memories available.  Had 
Lupin been teaching the lesson, perhaps pleasant memories would come 
up. (I am of course, making my best guess.)

Along that line, Snape would probably think that LV is not going to 
present a warm comfortable setting for Harry to work his skills, so 
why should he?

Potioncat (just wondering about all this)