Spinner's End--further evidence for DDsMan!Snape??

[houyhnhnm102]

No: HPFGUIDX 140007

Julie:

> Yet, if Snape was ESE, why didn't he  mention 
> the two worst things many ESE supporters suspect 
> him of  doing--namely, opening Harry's mind for 
> Voldemort during the Occlumency lessons, and delaying 
> notifying the Order that Harry had gone to the DoM?

houyhnhnm:

I am a strong DD's Man!Snape partisan myself so I hate to say it, but
I'm not sure this argument holds water. I don't think Snape would want
Voldemort or the DEs to know he had notified the Order *at all*,
especially in consideration of the way things turned out.  

I think the supposed *delay* in notifying the Order is a very weak
argument anyway for ESE!Snape.  I mean how was Snape supposed to
figure out that six teenagers going off into the Forbidden Forest
without brooms would be able to make it all the way to London.  He
reacted pretty quickly, IMO, and could have waited much longer without
arousing suspicion.

Making the mind initially more vulnerable is apparently an expected
side effect of Occlumency training.  Dumbledore explains to Harry why
he did not teach Harry Occlumency himself. "I have already said that
it was a mistake for me not to teach you myself, though I was sure, at
the time, that nothing could have been more dangerous than *to open
your mind even further to Voldemort* while in my presence." (OotP, AE
pbk, p. 833)

So opening Harry's mind up to Voldemort was not something Snape did
that any other teacher of Occlumency would not have done as well. I've
wondered if Voldemort knew, though, (via Harry) that Snape was giving
Occlumency lessons to Harry and if he had to explain himself.

But Snape could have taken credit for *sabotaging* the Occlumency
lessons.  Two possible reasons why he didn't.

1.  He adheres to the KISS school spying.  The more elaborate he makes
it, the greater the chance of screwing up.

2.  He didn't intentionally fail.  He succumbed to his own emotions,
which, for Snape, would be unbearable.  He can't face up to what
happened during the Occlumency lessons, therefore he can't use that as
raw material for his spinning.