[HPforGrownups] Stopping Occlumency

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 115011


--- Alex Boyd <alex51324 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Oh, and here's another random thought--eductional decree number 26,
> banning all teachers from giving students information not "strictly
> related to the subjects they are paid to teach" is in effect by the
> time Snape refuses to teach Harry Occlumency anymore.  And
> Dumbledore
> is gone.  I'm not totally sure, in Snape's place, that I would be
> entirely willing to *break the law* to teach a student I didn't
> like,
> and who didn't like me.  Particularly when the student in question
> hates the lessons.  *We*, since we have been inside Harry's head
> for
> the last five years, know that he's not about to run to Umbridge
> and
> say "Snape's violating Eductional Decree 26 every week by teaching
> me Occlumency."  But does Snape know that?  

Yes, I think Snape knows that.  He thinks Harry is full of bravado,
egotistical, vain, rules-breaking and all the rest but I do think he
gives him credit for being on the right side.  He doesn't think Harry
will deliberately harm the Order - although he might feel that it's
likely that Harry will inadvertantly do something harmful.

Magda

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