[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape's teaching moments was CHAPDISC: HBP24, Sectum...

[puduhepa98 at aol.com]

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>Phoenixgod2000:

>I don't think it was a teaching moment at  all. At least not a 
conscious one on Snape's part. I think that Snape, the  petty sadist 
that he is, was simply toying with him, lording over him with  his 
power that he was never able use on him while he was a teacher.  
Maybe Harry will take something away from their encounter and make 
Snape  regret playing with him for the very short period of time it 
will takes to  make Snape a grease spot on the floor.
 
Nikkalmati:
 
Well, why was SS playing with Harry then?  Why didn't he just squash  him as 
he obviously could have?  (or if that would annoy LV just wrap him  up like a 
fly in a spider web and take him along to LV as a present?)   Snape here is 
clearly giving Harry advice about how to defeat LV.  
 
BTW it puzzles me somewhat that in the last part of HBP we see absolutely  no 
reaction on Harry's part to the revelation that Snape is the Half-Blood  
Prince.  Does he believe him?  Has it turned him away from the Potions  book?  He 
normally would at least discuss it with Ron and Hermione,  wouldn't he?
 
Nikkalmati


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