First lesson WAS: Re: Marietta, was Slytherin's Reputation

[jkoney65]

No: HPFGUIDX 185814

> Zara:
> Such as the basics of duelling, and the Disarming Charm? Snape 
> arranged to teach Harry that in Harry's second year.

jkoney
I don't remember any personal instruction. Snape was Lockhart's 
assistant at the dueling club and he cast one disarming spell. There 
was no instruction before they were paired off. If that is teaching 
then I could have learned martial arts from watching a Bruce Lee 
movie and skipped all those lessons.

It was Snape who matched Malfoy and Harry together instead of letting 
Harry and Ron practice. It was also Snape who volunteered Harry and 
Malfoy to give a demonstration before the school. Lockhart messed up 
trying to teach Harry how to block any spells.

It was then Snape who whispered to Malfoy what spell to cast at 
Harry. So it definitely looks like Snape was trying to embarrass 
Harry by putting in front of the school when upper classmen would 
have been a better choice and it was Snape who told Malfoy to cast a 
spell that Harry wouldn't know how to deal with.

So I don't believe that Snape taught Harry the disarming or blocking 
spells but do believe he tried to embarrass/put down Harry in front 
of the school. 


 
> Zara:
> I have to say, that the first year, was something in which 
*Harry's* 
> reaction made me go "Huh?" His dislike of Snape throughout the 
first 
> year, his suspicions that Snape was up to no good, all that made 
> perfect sense to me. But Harry's non-reaction to the news that 
Snape 
> had saved his life is something I can't understand. It would not 
make 
> me like a teacher like Snape, but it would forever change how I 
> thought and acted about him. He would no longer be a jerk to 
> disrespect, he'd be a jerk to respect and avoid. I was taken aback 
by 
> the first scene in CoS in which Snape came up, jarringly so.

jkoney:
Well it was explained to Harry that Snape only did it to even off the 
debt he owed Harry's father. So I see how Harry wouldn't think any 
differently about Snape. After all he wasn't doing it for Harry, or 
even as a teacher protecting his student, he was doing it for the 
debt he owed. In Harry's mind there is no need for thanking Snape 
because he didn't do it for Harry.