[HPforGrownups] Re: Apologizing to Snape?

[Merry Kinsella]

No: HPFGUIDX 139135

Eggplant said:
> And if Snape were your kid would you also tell Snape
> to apologize to Harry for prying into his mind and not giving him
> the same opportunity to hide his most embarrassing memories in the
> Pensive? And if Harry had apologized how do you think he'd feel 
> about it now after he watched Snape murder Dumbledore?


That was not Snape's job, nor Harry's.  Harry's job
was to learn how to protect his private, secret
thoughts from LV through occlumency.  I really doubt
LV would offer Harry a pensieve first before trying to
find out what Harry had in his mind that LV could use
to hurt Harry.

What do we think Snape was yelling about?  "You are
giving me weapons!"

Weapons Snape did not use, btw.  He made no mention of
the private things he saw in Harry's mind - he got
annoyed he saw them at all, and was happy when Harry
finally - not soon enough, but at least managed - to
repel Snape's intrusion.

Harry wasn't taking occlumency as an abstract skill. 
He was taking it so that when LV confronted him, and
Harry's mind was full of memories of the Dursleys,
Cho, Sirius, school, etc., Harry could repel LV. 
This would not happen if his thoughts were safely in
the pensieve before he worked on occlumency with
Snape.

I feel certain that if Dumbledore wished Harry to
safekeep his thoughts in the penseive first, then
Snape would have allowed it.  Harry's JOB was to learn
to protect his thoughts first from Snape - who did not
use them to damage Harry - just warned him they were
weapons.

Harry should NOT have had the chance to secret his
thoughts away in a pensieve.  Defeats the purpose.

Merry Kinsella