Snape--Abusive?

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 115614


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "delwynmarch" <delwynmarch at y...>
wrote:
> 
> finwitch wrote:
> " Nah, Snape shouldn't be teaching Occlumency to ANYONE."
> 
> Del asks :
> Do you think he *wants* to, or ever wanted to ?
> 
> Del

Carol responds:
Del is right, based on Snape's own remarks. But Occlumency is a rare
skill and Snape is not only a "superb Occlumens," he is the only one
available. If Lupin or McGonagall could have done it, Dumbledore would
have asked them to. (The werewolf business would have made it
difficult for Upin to teach Harry, but arrangements could have been
made--the Shrieking Shack, for example.) But Snape was the only
available candidate.

Carol