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

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 129085

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lupinlore" <bob.oliver at c...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "a_svirn" <a_svirn at y...> 
wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > 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
> 
> Lupinlore:
> Yeah, I initially thought that too, svirn.  It accords with Option 
#1
> in the original post (at least I think it does). But the more I 
think
> of it the less sense it seems to make.  I mean, what in the world
> (wizarding or otherwise) would lead DD to think Snape could do 
such a
> thing on demand?  You have a man who rages, smolders, and all but 
goes
> into convulsions over Harry and his activities, yet you think that
> just because it's an emergency and you ask it of him he's going to 
be
> able to put all that aside and work with the boy in a 
very "intimate"
> activity like Occlumency training?  <snip>

It is also the man who is supposed to be a "superb Ocllumence". 
Well, he has to be, because whenever his loyalties lie, he is 
successfully deceiving at least one of the two most powerful wizards 
in the Potterverse (if not both of them). And doesn't the first 
requirement for Occlumency is the ability to detach oneself from 
one's emotions? If Snape is capable to achieve this with LV, surely 
he can handle Harry? And if he can't it makes one really wonder 
about his motivations. 
Personally, I think that he perfectly able to "overcome his 
emotions" in an emergency and that he staged the whole episode with 
the Pensieve. 

a_svirn