Imperius Resistance and Occlumency -THE REAL STORY

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>>Tonks: 
>LV gets his power from us, from our negative emotions. We all know 
that LV kills mostly though other people. Snape was a DE. He probably 
did kill someone and could again. Snape puts his thoughts in the 
pensive, but NOT because he doesn't want Harry to see them. He puts 
them there because they will be a danger to Harry if LV sees them. 
Snape's knows that this is his own weakness and we should give him 
credit for knowing that. He puts them in the pensive because he 
expects that he will come in contact with LV while teaching Harry.<

Betsy:
I'm not sure I understand this, are you saying that if Harry sees 
someone murdered, his emotional reaction to that would somehow give 
Voldemort power?  Because Harry did see Cedric murdered and during 
the battle at the MoM I don't think that memory was ever called up.

>>Tonks:
>Look at Snape's reaction when Harry sees what is in the pensive. He, 
the MASTER of non-emotion and control, looses control. He grabs 
Harry's arm and throws him to the floor.

Betsy:
Actually, I'd say that Snape in definitely *not* the master of 
control and non-emotion when anything regarding the Mauraders comes 
up.  Look at his reactions in the Shrieking Shack at the end of PoA.  
Snape was almost pure emotion at that point.

>>Tonks:
>What do you think would have happened to Harry if it were LV and not 
Harry looking into the memory, not in the pensive but in Snape's 
mind? I don't think that our dear Harry would have faired so well!!<

Betsy:
Again I'm not clear on what you're saying here. (I'm really sorry, 
I'm not trying to be difficult!) Are you saying that Voldemort could 
use the negative emotions of Snape to control him and sort of set him 
loose on Harry?

>>Tonks:
>Snape put the memory in the pensive to protect Harry. And he stops 
the lessons to protect Harry. This, of course, is NOT a good sign. It 
points to the potential of Snape again loosing control to LV. And I 
think that this is also the reason that DD doesn't trust Snape to be 
the DADA teacher.<

Betsy:
I tend to think that Snape is not at risk to going back to 
Voldemort.  Dumbledore is so incredibly confident in Snape that I 
think there most be some majorly compelling reason Snape changed 
sides.  I think that once we learn that reason (and I hope we do) 
we'll have a new outlook on Snape and also recognize that Snape is 
permanently on the right side.

I do wonder why Dumbledore doesn't want Snape to be the DADA 
professor. And I'm sure it's a good reason. But I don't think it's 
because he's worried Snape will go back to Voldemort.  If that was a 
real worry, Snape would not be so highly ranked in the Order.  In my 
opinion anyway.

Betsy