Snape--Abusive?

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 115018


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sophierom" 
<sophierom at y...> wrote:
> s. 
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> Remus does actually say this, and Harry ultimately ignores this
> advice: "Harry, I know you don't like Snape, but he is a superb
 Occlumens and we all - Sirius included - want you to learn to 
protect yourself, so work hard, all right?"(527) This to me is 
another sign another sign that Harry wasn't taking this as 
seriously as he should have, and it also makes me wonder that 
if someone else, someone like Lupin, had been the teacher, 
how much more Harry would have learned. <

Except that Lupin bugged out of the anti-dementor lessons 
before Harry could actually conjure a corporeal patronus. He told 
Harry that the partial patronus would help him, but so far, even 
facing just one Dementor in Book Five, it didn't. 

Whether it was because Lupin couldn't bring himself to make 
Harry face those old memories or because of some ESE!plot, I 
don't know, but either way it seems he might not have finished 
the Occlumency  task either.

Pippin