What's wrong with being bad ?

[kyntor70]

No: HPFGUIDX 101959

Kneasy wrote:

"He passes snide comments. So what? What are their effects? Minimal.
He throws Harry out of the Occlumency teaching. With what effect?
Not much, Harry wasn't going to learn anyway. Harry had already 
decided not to co-operate. Any action by Snape was icing on the cake -
 it just gave Harry *his* excuses - "It's all Snape's fault!" Wrong. 
Does not compute."

Kyntor replies:

That's not really true.  Snape's behaviour has more than minimal 
effects.  The question you should be asking is WHY Harry wasn't too 
interested in co-operating with Snape.  I think it is pretty easy to 
see that Harry doesn't like nor does he completely trust Snape.  I 
believe that those two attitudes are a direct result of the way Snape 
has behaved towards Harry.  Since Snape treats Harry roughly the same 
way as the Dursleys, Harry regards him the same way as he does the 
Dursleys.  If it had been any other professor but Snape giving the 
occlumency lessons, Harry would have responded differently.

I think these occlumency lessons were doomed from the start.  
Dumbledore should have known better than to trust the important 
occlumency lessons to Harry and Snapes abiltity to get along with 
each other.

Kyntor

P.S. - Oops, I forgot to take a shot at Snape.  Snape started it!  
There...I feel much better now.