All the subjects required for an Auror - Was Re: YES (Did Snape Murder DD?)

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 138272

I said earlier about Snape's thinking Harry studying to be an Auror is
a joke:

> I just don't buy that it's about Harry being mediocre, but I also
> can't buy that Snape has realised this interesting thing he found in
> Harry is a better power or more important that stealth wizardry
> because at the end of HBP he's still preaching at Harry how stupid 
> he is for not making that his priority. 
> 
> 

> Rachel replied:
> IMO, Snape still harbors dislike for Harry because of Harry's
parentage.  His distaste for James Potter, and now Harry, is evident
in the comment he makes in PA when he compares the arrogance of father
and son.  He continually comments on the special treatment Harry
recieves, showing perhaps that Snape is jealous of the Potters.  
> 
> Snape is dumbfounded that Harry is "the Chosen One" - an arrogant,
talentless, rulebreaker.  Snape has heard the prophecy and knows that
Harry is "the one," but he just can't believe that Harry will be able
to defeat LV.  Snape assumes that Harry will need to fend off LV in
his head, that Harry will defeat LV by using occlumency. But as HBP
has shown us, all you need is love.  Harry is not the picture of a
wizard Snape thinks can defeat LV, but he begrudgingly continues to
try to teach Harry DADA in the hopes that it will take.  
> 
> Snape really DOES think Harry is mediocre, and in some ways this is
true from Snape's perspective.  Harry has not been very proficient in
potions or occlumency, talents that Snape holds in high esteem.  I
think what we have seen thus far is that Harry will likely not defeat
LV in the ways Snape is trying to instruct him.  Harry will defeat LV
in his own way, a way which Snape can not understand - most likely
with help from Harry's friends.  
> 
> Rachel

Valky (me) now:
This is my opinion too, but in the context of it being the reason that
Snape takes Harry's efforts to learn Auror skills to be laughable,
this argument that you give here points firmly at my second suggestion
which I have elaborated on slightly in a later post. I do agree that
Snape really DOES think Harry is mediocre, but I am also absolutely
certain that in Harry's latest year Snape was definitely poking his
hooked nose into Harry's thoughts for a reason. And it wasn't to
reassure himself that Harry was mediocre. 
In short I would assume from your argument Rachel, that you could too
imagine that Snape *wants* to be the Hero of the story. To my mind,
this is the only thing that canon on Snapes attitude to Harry's Auror
ambition does *not* contradict from some angle.

Darn it last post... I'll have to take my Glory Hound Good Snape
elsewhere till tomorrow.. 

Valky
Going back to her isolated little spot in the Snape camps and as
Dumbledore Ordered is ...

Remembering, Cedric Diggory