DD and Snape /Re: Regressed Harry

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 163191

> Alla wrote:
> <snip>
> > 
> > Oh, and  somebody else could have been there, really. I mean, 
> > another potion master or Dark Arts teacher? I don't think I need 
to 
> > bring up every time that I understand story based reasons for 
Snape 
> > being there, but  if DD hired somebody else, why not?
> 
> Carol responds:
> I'm not quite sure what you mean here, so forgive me if I'm
> misinterpreting your words. It's possible that another Potions 
master,
> Slughorn, at least, could have whipped up Veritaserum, Mandrake
> Restorative Potion, and even the tricky Wolfsbane Potion on demand,
> but what other DADA teacher could have stopped the Dark curse that
> destroyed DD's hand or prevented the curse on the opal necklace 
from
> killing Katie or saved Draco from Sectumsempra? <SNIP>


Alla:

I am not going into debate of Snape DADA skills, but I do want to 
clarify that I was simply pointing out that there is no indication 
that any of Snape skills are somehow unique IMO. Rare, maybe, not 
hundred percent sure, unique not from my POV.

For all I know any competent DADA teacher could have done precisely 
what Snape did.



> Carol:
<SNIP>
>Perhaps we would benefit
> from looking at such straightforward statements about Snape, the 
ones
> that seem least biased by Harry's pov. (The narrator, unlike, say, 
the
> narrator of a Jane Austen book, has no opinions of his or her own. 
Any
> opinions or interpretations in the narrative portions of the HP 
books
> are those of the pov character or characters, as in the early 
portions
> of "The Riddle House" in Gof, where the narrator is reporting from 
the
> pov of the Little Hangletonians.)
<SNIP>

Alla:

We will never convince each other about first lesson, because I 
really do not see how the **events* that narrator reports can be 
reported differently,whether or not they will have different 
colouring, they will still be the same events IMO.

The most striking of course is Snape punishing Harry for not helping 
Neville. That is unreliable in your view? Do you think Snape really 
did not take points off Harry for Neville mistake?

I know, that was all for Harry's good and Neville as well. It is 
especially consistent with Snape punishing Hermione in PoA for 
helping Neville ..... NOT in my opinion


> Carol, who thinks that Snape's value to Dumbledore far outweighs 
any
> momentary hurt feelings or injured pride that students may 
experience
> in Snape's classes (and they need to get over such sensitivity,
> anyway, if they're going to survive in the grown-up world, whether 
WW
> or Muggle)
>

Alla:

Die Snape, please die or suffer horrible fate of being in Harry's 
debt forever, please JKR. :) For that I am even willing to be upset 
over Harry being dead, if that means Snape gritting his teeth of 
being indebted to another Potter.