"I thought he could overcome his feelings..."

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 129033

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lupinlore" <bob.oliver at c...> 
wrote:
> In Dumbledore's speech at the end of OOTP, he says of Snape, "I 
> thought Professor Snape could overcome his feelings about your 
> father.  I was wrong."
> 
> DD's speech is somewhat vague as to the time scale to which he is 
> referring (e.g. when he talks about his mistakes does he mean just 
> since the end of GoF or since Harry's birth or what?) and this 
part 
> of the speech is no exception.  The more I think of it, the vaguer 
> it seems to get.  


I always sort of assumed that DD meant something like "I thought 
Professor Snape could muster his feelings about your father, so that 
they wouldn't get in the way of business". In other words, DD though 
him capable to adapt the attitude Snape himself advocated during his 
Occlumency lessons. 

a_svirn