Rampant Ingratitude, was Re:Lusting After Snape

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 129461

Amiable Dorsai:

 Well, I don't know who would be a better authority than the person it
 was actually happening to.

 And it is an established fact that Snape terminated the lessons.


Pippin:
No harm in that if they weren't *working* --you
can't have it both ways. And as Harry has learned so little about
occlumency, he's hardly an authority. 

Amiable Dorsai:

 Yep. In this case his action was implying to a student in his charge
 that it was OK to break the law for trivial purposes.

Pippin:
I think you've missed my point. Learning the truth about Harry's
midnight  rambling and suspected  pilfering was not trivial under 
the circumstances. There was a Death Eater loose and Harry was 
obstructing a criminal investigation, not to mention putting 
himself in danger. 

Snape couldn't be sure Harry wasn't being used by the baddie 
(as indeed he was). 

Amiable Dorsai (129415):

 At this point, Dumbledore has been dead wrong about three teachers.

Pippin:
And Snape has been dead right -- about Quirrell and Lockhart, and
he was probably right about Lupin too. If it's okay for Harry, whose 
brain is channeling Voldemort,  to think for himself, why not Snape? 

Pippin