Chapter 29, Career Advice - Broken Potion

dumbledore11214 dumbledore11214 at yahoo.com
Thu Nov 4 19:58:03 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 117240


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "mcmaxslb" <McGregorMax at e...> 
wrote:
I despise him. Snape has been a complete s#!+ to Harry 
> from the first moment that they met and he has though his treatment 
> of Harry created such animosity between them that Snivellus has 
hurt, 
> indeed almost lost, the cause that he is supposed to be fighting 
for 
> and it is 100% Snape's fault. 


Alla:

Dear, oh, dear. See I am in complete agreement with this part of your 
post(except despising - I partially despise and partially love 
Snape :o)), but I cannot help but not to find your argument in 
general to be very credible because of its next part.


Mcmaxslb:
He didn't try to teach Harry 
> Occlumency. He just used the opportunity to torture him! If 
Snivellus 
> had done the job properly then Voldemort wouldn't have been able to 
> lure Harry to the MoM in the first place. 

Alla:

It LOOKS like Snape did not do a good job of teaching Harry. If you 
can show me where in canon we can find "Occlumency for Dummies, 101", 
which states exactly, how Occlumency is supposed to be taught, I will 
eat my words.

Right now, I would say we don't know it for sure. It is possible that 
relaxation was the first step and Snape did not do it, but it is also 
possible that direct assault was the necessary first step of teaching 
that subject.


Mcmaxslb:
Now some of the blame is 
> Dumbledore's. He should've know that Snape wouldn't do the job 
right.

Alla:

No kidding. :o) 


Mcmaxslb:
> I hope that in HBP that there is a scene in which Dumbledore takes 
> Snively to task and tells him to grow up.


Alla:

Hmmm. I hope for that scene too, but I somehow doubt that we are 
going to get it.







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