Teaching Styles

[rtbthw_mom]

No: HPFGUIDX 147791

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Kathryn Jones <kjones at ...> 
wrote:
>
> 
> > Magpie:
> 
> > So yeah, my point here isn't to say that Snape's a great guy and
> > Harry can't see it but the Slytherins can...it's just to say that
> > whatever Rowling's personal judgment is on Snape as a teacher I 
do
> > think she acknowledges the difference between Snape having power 
and
> > Snape abusing power and is almost interested in the line 
crossing.
> > If he was no good as a teacher at all I don't think he'd work the
> > way he needs to work in the story.
> > 
> > -m
> 
>    KJ writes:
> 
>      Considering the fact of HBP where we learn about non-verbal 
spells, 
> and OotP, where we learn about Legilimency, and considering the 
fact 
> that Harry is the only one really that Snape picks on, I can't 
help but 
> wonder if he has been doing that all along to keep an open channel 
to 
> Harry's mind. Harry is much easier to read when he is angry. Snape 
makes 
> Harry furious every time they are together and yet we don't see 
that 
> with other students.  Since we can be sure that Snape and 
Dumbledore 
> would have been keeping a wary eye on Harry to see how much 
influence 
> Voldie would have on him, this would be the best way to do that.
> 
>    KJ
>

I agree, this is one very possible explanation.  But another might 
be, that Spy!Snape *has* to keep his relationship with Harry just as 
snarky as it is, because when he's in LV's presence, he knows that 
LV will be performing legilimancy on him, to discover what his 
relationship with Harry (and Neville) is like!  In other words, 
Snape needs to keep his relationship with Harry on nasty terms, for 
his own safety as a spy, if he is DDM!Snape (which I lean towards.)  
By doing so, he protects not only himself, but also Harry from LV.  
It's the same situation as Dumbledore not speaking to Harry all 
through OoTP: so LV has no idea of the affection DD has for Harry, 
and that their relationship is nothing more than headmaster and 
pupil.  (I'll leave it to everyone's imagination to decide what 
Snape's feelings toward Harry are :o) )

Thanks for listening,
Pat