Severus giving up/Harry seeing the other side of his father

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 101963

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, SnapesSlytherin at a... wrote:


> Alla previously:
> 
> I will say more. Not only Snape chose to give up, I believe he 
wanted to give up. I believe that he hated that task from the 
beginning and used pensieve incident as convenient excuse to get out 
of that task.
>

 
> Oryomai:
> *calms down* Ok, here I go *g*.  I think the fact that Severus 
hated the task from the beginning is canon.  It's like "Harry's eyes 
are green" or "Hermione is in Gryffindor".  And the Pensieve incident 
was the reason the lessons ended.  That's true.
> 
> *But* I don't think of a microsecond that Severus set it up so that 
he would get out of lessons.  Severus isn't that good of an actor.  
He couldn't have faked that anger.  That was Shrieking Shack anger, 
that was.  And why would anyone let the son of the man who tortured 
you in school see what you went through?  What's that you say?  It 
changed Harry's opinion of his father?  I think it's good that Harry 
saw the other side of his father.  It's never beneficial to believe 
that someone is a total saint.
> 
> Oryomai
> --Who notices that no one touched her "What's wrong with being bad" 
post.


Alla:

I actually did not say that Snape set up the Pensieve accident, 
although I don't believe that canon excludes such possibility. It is 
entirely possible that Snape left pensieve there on purpose. But I 
was only saying that Snape used the fact that accident occurred as 
convenient excuse to stop the lessons.


Alla, 
who read Oryomai's "What's wrong with being bad" post, but could not 
debate it because the only response she had was : No, No, No. I 
disagree. Such responses usually do not make very interesting 
discussion. :o)