Why has DD never suggested Snape thank Harry? (Was: Why has DD never suggested H

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Lupinlore wrote:

> Dumbledore has never once suggested
> to Harry that he should thank Snape 
> for doing so [saving his life]. 

I believe this entire thread is misnamed so I changed it. At the 
time in question Harry had just saved the entire Wizarding world 
(including Snape) from a terrible fate; in fact although he had not 
yet reached his 13'Th birthday this was the second time he had done 
so. In spite of this Snape continues to treat Harry like dirt; 
thanking Snape under those circumstances would be condescending and 
grotesque.

I seriously question Dumbledore's wisdom, if not sanity, in letting 
a borderline psychopath like Snape teach children, especially let 
him teach Harry, most especially let him teach Harry Occlumency. I 
believe Harry's failure to learn the subject and the resulting 
disaster were due to Snape's incompetent teaching methods. Everybody 
said that in order to learn Occlumency your mind needs to be as calm 
as possible, yet just before each lesion Snape made sure Harry was 
absolutely furious.  I don't know if Snape did this consciously or 
if his hatred of Harry made him resist giving something as valuable 
as Occlumency to Harry and he did it subconsciously, but either way 
it's bad.  Harry repeatedly said that Snape's lessons weakened his 
ability to resist Voldemort's attacks, everybody seems to ignore 
this but I think it's important.

Eggplant