Harry learning from Snape (was: stopper death)

[hester_griffith]

No: HPFGUIDX 114478



> phoenixgod2000:
<snip> Dumbledore put a man in charge of Harry's education who wants
Harry to fail.  Harry may need to take responsibility for his
learning, and he should, but Snape needs to take his responsiblility
as his teacher seriously.  What I want to see in the next book is
Dumbledore grow a spine when it comes to Snape and make him treat 
Harry better.


Hester:

Yes, Snape does want Harry to fail.  He sees much of James in Harry,
and frankly Harry does have a bit of an attitude.  He definitely has a
tendency to blithely break rules.  Granted he has "good" reasons for
the most part, but Snape doesn't know this.

Fortunately Harry's future cannot be decided by Snape.  He doesn't
have the power to expell Harry nor the power to fail Harry, or prevent
him from becoming an auror.  Harry has complete control over that
through his personal study and his ability to perform during his OWLs
and NEWTs.

DD is a very wise man.  Thus he recognizes that learning to deal with
unfairness and cruelty will help Harry be stronger and more
independent.  Harry is forced to take more initiative in his
education, and thus his goals are defined and strengthened.  If Snape
really could prevent Harry from learning what he needs to, or did
anything worse than deduct points and assign detentions, DD would
certainly get involved in some way.  DD also recognised and
apologised for his error in judgement in assigning Snape as Harry's
occlumency teacher.

LIFE IS NOT FAIR.  DD is doing Harry a favor by alowing him to learn
how to live in an unfair world, while he is still young and pretty
sheltered at school.  Harry doesn't really learn anything about
dealing with this at the Dursleys, but his education and success in
the WW is so important to him that he does learn this at Hogwarts.

Hester