Simple!Snape? / Occlumency, Legilimency

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 124953



> SSSusan:
> What if I grant you this part on Occlumency? :-) Could you go a 
step 
> further and explain the other two bits I asked about?
> 
> Here it was:  "Why does Snape not go out of his way to teach Harry 
> EVERYTHING he can -- about Potions, about Occlumency, about what 
he 
> knows of Voldemort's characture, nature, tactics, goals, etc.??
> ...  If Snape was hell-bent on getting Harry ready to bring down 
> Voldy, wouldn't he ask himself, "Is what I'm doing working?  Is it 
> enough?"
> 
> So, what about the first in my list [potions] and, especially, the 
> last [teaching Harry ABOUT Voldemort]?  
> 
> Lupinlore has gone a different direction in answering me -- he's 
> arguing that Snape may not know about the prophecy.  That's not 
> something you argued here.  So if you believe Snape IS in the 
know, 
> then why hasn't he tried to help Prophecy Boy by giving him all 
the 
> insights he can about Voldemort?  


a_svirn:

I think that it's simply not up to Snape to decide what Harry is 
allowed to know and what he should be taught. This is DD's 
prerogative exclusively. And as I wrote in earlier posts DD's 
approach is to fill Harry in to a certain extent but not "more that 
he needs to know". The way it looked in OotP, in DD's opinion the 
less he knows the better. He decided that Harry was not ready to 
handle the truth about the Prophesy, but thought it would be prudent 
to teach him Occlumency. So he ordered Snape to take care of it. I 
doubt that Snape WANTED to teach Harry about Voldemort in the first 
place, but even if he did he would not go against DD's orders. Also, 
we must not forget that Harry is not the member of the Order, and 
therefore is not entitled to the classified information. And again, 
it's DD's place to decide when he is going to be allowed to join the 
Order, not Snape's.

There is also a little matter of Harry's not trusting Snape. He 
would have probably either dismissed everything Snape has to say as 
irrelevant or decided to act in a way directly opposite to Snape's 
instructions. 

 As for potions, I think it is rather unjust of you. Hardly Snape's 
fault that Harry's not cut out to be a potion-maker. 

As for whether he knew about the Prophesy. We can only guess of 
course, but I rather think that DD haven't divulged the whole of it 
to anyone. (And if Snape was the eavesdropper he new only the fist 
part). He might have told the gist of it to Sirius, because he 
recognised him as a rightful guardian (and in magical world it's 
likely more than just a formality), so Sirius could have challenged 
some of his decisions concerning Harry. But I am not sure. 

a_svirn