Why DADA for Snape? (WAS Re: Do any list members think...)

[quick_silver71]

No: HPFGUIDX 147043

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Claudia" <mudblood68 at y...> 
wrote:
> > Quick_Silver
> > Instead Dumbledore keeps Harry on the Tower under the
> > cloak to witness what occurs with Draco, the DE's, and Snape. 
Not so
> > much for Harry's safety but so that Harry can see what happens
> > because Harry needs to know. Harry needs to know because of who
> > Harry is and what Harry must do.
> 
> 
> Thinking the scene through with a cooler head, Harry ought to see 
the 
> parallels between himself in the cave and Snape on the tower. And 
> thinking also about the last lesson that Snape gave him on his 
> flight, he ought to realize that Snape is in fact his biggest ally 
in 
> the fight against Voldemort.
> 
> I can easily picture DD wanting this to happen. Especially if we 
> consider DD's weakness in realizing how the hatred between Snape 
and 
> Harry affects any cool reasoning on Harry's part.
> 
> Claudia (who totally agrees to what Steve, Quick_Silver and 
Zgirnius 
> have said so far in this thread)
>

Actually I wasn't refering so much to Harry making a parallel with 
Snape as with the concept that knowledge is power. Harry now has 
knowledge from the Tower, i.e. that Draco isn't not a killer and 
doesn't want to be a DE, that he can porbably put to good use. 

Quick_Silver (who dislikes the Cave vs Tower parallel for some 
reason)