Snape and Occlumency

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>Potioncat writes:
>But I'll throw this out in honesty.  If for some reason 
>Snape had been the one to teach Harry the Patronus charm, he would 
>no doubt have tossed a bucket of water on him, ordered him to stand 
>up and opened up the cabinet again. (Nothing more than "that wasn't 
>as bad as it might have been" and certainly no chocolate)

Brilliant analysis!  I've been reading the Good Snape/Bad Snape 
threads and while I really want to believe that there is some good in 
Snape buried down under the loads of slime, I keep coming back to the 
scene in GoF where Malfoy's spell deflects and hits Hermione, causing 
her teeth to grow and grow.  When they are past her chest, they force 
Hermione to show them to Snape and he coldly says, "I see no 
difference."  That pretty much summed up Snape's personality, in my 
opinion.  He'd been mean to Hermione before that, but that comment 
was downright EVIL.  For a person who was teased and taunted as 
teenager and therefore had to know the sheer agony of it to come out 
with a comment that blatantly cruel was, to me, unforgiveable.  If he 
plans on being redeemed in the end, he'd better get on with it, 
because he has a massive amount of meanness to make up for.

Nicky Joe