Why did Snape teach Occlumency?/Snapes Trustworthiness

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 103556

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sonjaaiston" 
<sonjaaiston at y...> wrote:
> Why did Snape teach Harry Occlumency in OofP?



huge snip.

Hi, Sonja! That was indeed discussed here in great details rahter 
recently. Check out ... let's say message 100606 and many many, many 
messages that follow. :o)


Topics do get rehashed though all the time and this was not the first 
and hopefully not the last time when we will be discussing that. :o)


I want to concentrate on the second part of your post though, since I 
am still not in repeating mood for the blame game. :o)

Of course, everything is Snape fault. We all know that, right? ;)

 
> 
> Snape's Trustworthiness:
> 
> Aside from the above topic, I'm am beginning to think Snape will 
end 
> up being a traitor to Dumbledore ---- only b/c we have been told so 
> many times (by Hermione and Dumbledore) that he is on Dumbledore's 
> side.  Harry and Ron have suspected Snape many times only to find 
> out they were wrong.  It seems JKR might be giving us a "false 
sense 
> of security." 
> 


Alla:

OK, I used to think that after OoP Snape may betray the Order, I 
don't think so anymore.

It seems that movie no matter how far from canon it is , convinced me 
in quite a few things.

I think that JKR would have vetoed the scene of Snape shielding the 
Trio, if he would have to be a traitor after all.

I was also thinking that Hermione and Dumbledore tell us about 
trusting Snape way too many times, BUT I now believe that imaginary 
betrayal of the sort is possible.

Yes, we as the readers are convinced that Harry is wrong in his "he 
will never forgive Snape, ever". Everybody will tell Harry that he is 
wrong, etc., etc.

Harry will be lead to believe that Snape did something to betray the 
Order, throwing us, readers and our sense of secuyrity of track, but 
at the end we will learn that Snape is loyal after all, making t as 
Annemehr once said a "clever double bluff" on JKR's part.

Have I just defended Snape again? I don't believe myself. :)