[HPforGrownups] Harry, Snape and Dementors WAS: Re: CHAPTER Chamber of Secrets Chapter 18:

[Sheila Douglas]

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> Alla:

> Are you arguing that Harry disagreed with Snape simply because he wanted to be disagreeable and because he liked teacher better? IMO regardless of what emotional baggage he had (and of course he did) and I maintain that ALL of such emotional baggage was inflicted upon Harry by Snape in the first place, in this instance Harry disagreed because he experienced practical results of his method and of course he would choose the one that he knew for sure would work.

> To me it is like arguing that if there is a spell that is a whole sentence that can stupefy people, that Harry should start using that spell instead of "Stupefy" simply because teacher says it should work.

> I know I would choose the results of experiment that I conducted myself rather than what teacher would say should work and I would definitely insist on the highest grade for myself if this achieves the result teacher seeks.


sile_dubhghlase:
I have to agree with Alla again. What could have Harry gained by just being disagreeable? Again, he did what Remus taught him to do and it worked no matter what Snape's opinion on the thing might be,
right-wrong-or-indifferent. Period. However, not all of Harry's emotional baggage should be attributed to Snape, although the greasy git certainly added to it. His time with the Dursleys and the fact that he faced down Voldemort at least three more times before his third year and endured scorn and then praise and then scorn again over it all DEFINITELY had much to do with Harry's baggage.

Ockham's Razor applies here. In a duel, the faster one can cast, the better chance he or she has to win or survive, as the case may be. If one can cast a spell with an economy of words in the incantation and achieve the same--if not better--results, how can it be counted as wrong? Only a jealous, sneering, megalomaniacal, overgrown whine-baby would count it as such...and that, gang, is Severus Snape.

I too would trust the results of an experiment I conducted on my own rather than the word of some person calling himself a professor whom I had little to no respect for. There's nothing wrong with seeking out answers for oneself because no human being is infallible, but people blinded by hate and jealousy can't accept that, especially if it's a child or the child of a hated rival that made the discovery.