Why Snape Can't Be Evil

[wickywackywoo2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 134238

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "catjaneway" <slmuth at h...> wrote:

> So Harry has "pretty much given up on doing or attempting" 
> Occlumency for some pretty integral psychological reasons. Sounds 
> like once again Snape just doesn't "get" Harry. To me his insistence 
> that Harry play by LV's rules (mouth shut, mind closed) doesn't 
> sound like valuable advice from a caring mentor.
> 
It could still be a 'teaching moment', but not quite in the same way.
 Snape could be telling him, 'Look, this isn't working, and it's never
going to work - you can't do it THIS WAY.  Stop doing the same thing
over and over and expecting to get a different result, because you
won't.  You have to try a different method or when you face LV you're
going to be killed.'  So he's not trying to make him better at what
he's doing, he's showing him that what he's doing is hopeless and he's
got to find a different way.

Wanda