DD, Snape, & Occumency (was: ...making eye contact...)

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 99678

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "mnaper2001" <mnaperrone at a...>
wrote:

> Ally:
> 
> ...edited...
> 
> Plus, don't you have the same problem with Snape teaching 
> occlumency?  He's in the Order and a spy.  Won't there be a problem 
> if V realizes that Snape is trying to teach Harry to protect himself 
> from V?
> 
> ...edited...
> 
> I have a hard time believing that the risk to the Order and Harry 
> was less if Snape, as opposed to DD, taught him.  Can anyone help me
> out here?
>
> Ally

bboy_mn:

Amazingly, I never looked at the Occlumency lessons from this
perspective before. I can buy Dumbledore's explanation for not
teaching the lessons himself, and can see that if Snape is an
excellent Occlumens, how he would be a good candidate as teacher. 

BUT, and that is a very big but, I have to wonder if either Dumbledore
or Harry realize what a compromising, delicate, and dangerous
situation Snape has been placed in. 

I always thought Snape did such a poor job of teaching Harry
Occlumency because he was a generally nasty person, and hated Harry.
But, on one hand, he had to do as Dumbledore said, though, on the
other hand, he very much needed to maintain his assumed position as a
spy for Voldemort. So, in true Death Eater fashion, he did enough to
say he had done the job, but did it in a way that showed clear distain
for Dumbledore and Harry.

At the moment, I'm slightly stunned at suddenly being force to see
what a horribly awkward and difficult position Snape was in.

bboy_mn