OFH SNAPE was: Script from JKR's reading/ About Snape and Dumbledore

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No: HPFGUIDX 157037

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "juli17ptf" <juli17 at ...> wrote:
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> Julie:
> I don't see how Snape refusing to give Harry Occlumency lessons 
> after the pensieve incident is an indication that Dumbledore
> doesn't trust him. Or that Snape can't be trusted. Dumbledore
> could very well have demanded Snape resume the lessons, and I
> feel certain Snape would have done so even if he delivered
> some vituperous commentary over that demand. 

I agree that the ending of Snape's involvement in Occlumency is not 
a matter of trust (i.e. it isn't an indication, per se, that DD no 
longer trusts Snape to continue the lessons).  But how do we know 
that Dumbledore didn't demand that Snape continue the lessons?  We 
have, I think, no evidence on that at all -- and if Lupin's 
expectation about DD's reaction was accurate, Dumbledore could 
certainly be expected to make such a demand if he isn't an absolute 
idiot.  Nor do we know that Snape did not simply refuse point 
blank.  It would absolutely be within his character to do so, bitter 
and childish as he is.

Actually, though, it seems that DD was, for whatever reason, 
absolutely cut off from what was going on at Hogwarts during that 
period.  At this point DD, as so often in the Potter saga, ceases to 
be a character and simply becomes a plot device.  It doesn't suit 
the needs of the plot for DD to have any access to Hogwarts, so he 
doesn't.


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