[HPforGrownups] Harry's anger (was Re: Draco's anger.)

[TrekkieGrrrl]

No: HPFGUIDX 122260

>> "horridporrid03" <horridporrid03 at y...> wrote:
>
>> Maybe because Harry wasn't trying? He never
>> did the homework Snape assigned. Of course
>> he didn't lean anything.
>
>Eggplant:
> It must be more than that, Harry didn't need to do homework to
> master the Imperious Curse and according to Snape that's very
> similar to Occlumency. Even some very formidable characters, like
> the real Moody and Crouch Junior and Senior, find it very difficult
> to resist the Imperius Curse, it seems to take them years of effort
> to even win even a partial victory. Yet Harry learned how to  throw
> it off completely in just a few minutes in his very first lesson.
> There must be a reason he couldn't do the same with Occlumency and I
> think that reason is Snape.

Or perhaps Snape though that you used the same means as when you resisted 
the imperipous curse, so he believed that Harry would *know* how to do it, 
by using the same method - only it didn't work because Harry didn't *want* 
to work with Snape?

>
>> Hell yeah, Harry was wrong. You read my
>> private journal and I'd throw a jar of
>> cockroaches at you myself.
>
> Harry had every right to look at the Pensive because Snape was not
> fighting fair. Snape was an adult and a skilled professor of magic
> and yet he took the precaution of removing his most embarrassing
> memories before they started to probe each others minds. Snape did
> NOT give Harry, who was just a school boy, the same opportunity and
> in fact when he found something humiliating, like the incident of
> the dog chasing him up a tree, rubbed Harry's nose in it. That seems
> cowardly to me. It's like the heavyweight boxing champion of the
> world putting on protective padding before fighting a little boy
> while the kid gets nothing.

Since when has two wrongs equalled one right?

Just because Snape did something wrong it doesn't entitle Harry to do 
something wrong (or worse) to Snape.

It would be the same as to suggest that if you steal my purse, it's ok that 
I steal your car? Or break into your house?

Exactely the point that Snape removed that memory was the very reason why 
Harry was *not* entitled to see it.

And I just can't see that the dog chasing Harry up a tree can be likened 
with Severus being humiliated and stripped(?) in front of the whole school 
just because the Marauders were bored.

As a matter of fact, Snape could have chosen to show Harry that memory to 
prove that James was a beast.

~TrekkieGrrrl
who is still an avid Snape supporter.