Snape's DADA speech (wasRe: CHAPDISC: HBP9, The Half-Blood Prince

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> Alla:
> 
> You know, that's funny. From Hermione's summary I did not think 
that 
> Harry and Snape speeches sounded that similar at all. Even in 
> Hermione's summary Harry does not talk about Dark Arts 
> being "indestructible", but I digress. I wanted to read Harry's 
> speech verbatim to compare for myself. I had a guess that Hermione 
> meant Harry talking for DA when she made this observation, but I 
> could not find what she was talking about at all. In the Hog's Head 
> Harry mainly just answers whether he did certain deeds and says 
that 
> he had a lot of help with his stuff. In Dumbledore's Army he 
> supervises practices, but I could not find what Hermione talks 
about 
> either.
> 
> Could somebody help me, please? Which Harry's speech Hermione 
> compares to Snape's? 

Potioncat:
Least I become the next HBP...(Half-baked Poster) I sat down and re-
read the chapter. It's a habit I may just cultivate. Darts a look at 
Penapart Elf who is rolling her eyes.

 Anyway,I came across Part II of Snape's DADA speech. It's something 
I'd forgotten and it may be something Harry didn't hear, but Hermione 
did.I didn't know exactly which speech of Harry's Hermione was 
talking about, however, now I think it was this part of Snape's 
speech that she was actually comparing Harry's comments to:

"Your defenses," said Snape, a little louder, "must therefore be as 
flexible and inventive as the arts you seek to undo. These 
pictures"..."give a fair represantation of what happens to those who 
suffer, for instance, the Cruciatus Curse"..."feel the Dementor's 
Kiss"..."or provoke the aggression of the Inferius"...

Parvati asks, "Has an Inferius been seen, then?"..."Is it definite, 
is he using them?"

"The Dark Lord has used Inferi in the past"..."which means you would 
be well-advised to assume he might use them again. Now..."

This does sound more like Harry, "flexible and inventive". It's also 
interesting to me, that Snape tells the class what Voldemort has done 
in the past and that they should be prepared for it again. Granted, 
he says "Dark Lord." Keep in mind, Malfoy is in this class...yet 
Snape is admitting that he's teaching the class how to prepare 
themselves for LV. Cutting it a bit close, isn't he? After all, DADA 
has been around longer than LV has, Snape could have taken this in a 
different direction. It's also interesting that he has posters of the 
Cruciatus Curse, rather than performing it for the class. Isn't this 
the year Crouch!Moody said the class was supposed to learn the 
Unforgivables?

Snape then has them partner off and practice silent spells, both 
attacking and defending. Snape turns his wand on Harry who panics (my 
words) and knocks Snape off balance. There is the bit 
of 'conversation' which ends with Snape saying..."I do not take cheek 
from anyone Potter...not even the '*chosen one.*'" (Interesting that 
in my book the words are '  ' and italics.)

Snape is reminding Harry who Harry is, and that it's important he 
learns nonverbal spells.


I am of course, speaking of DDM!Snape, I have no idea what his evil 
twin might have been doing if he was teaching the class.