I never thought: Snape is good!

[desastreuse]

No: HPFGUIDX 133269

Chris writes: 
> Harry: "Blocked again and again and again until you learn to keep 
> your mouth shut and your mind closed, Potter!" (U.S. 603). I don't 
> see this line so much as taunting Harry as it is giving him 
> instruction.


Don't forget Snape's "DON'T...CALL ME COWARD!" during this same 
scene.  The key to the emotion here is the "pain"  Harry ascribes to 
Snape at this point, the pain of a cornered and frightened animal 
(like Hagrid's dog in the burning hut).  As I said in my first post 
today, Snape is responding to Harry's taunt in anguish over Harry's 
ignorance of the circumstances:  Snape has just done the bravest, most
painful thing he has ever done in killing DD.