Dumbledore's idea to make Harry and Snape 'bond' and learn to work together might have worked had Snape been able to act like an adult.
I'm not entirely on Harry's side in this, because he's seriously antagonistic to Snape in the later books, but he didn't start it. Snape did. And Snape's also a mind-bogglingly awful teacher (made to work in dubious conditions for the sake of an oath he was pressured to make after making some terrible mistakes as a teenager while he was trying to correct those mistakes for entirely the wrong reasons. I'll shut up now.) Harry, in OotP, is nowhere near emotionally or mentally stable. He's not in a position to be the responsible one and learn only to get away from Snape (although it's mentioned that he tries, but gets distracted because he's curious) and he shouldn't have to be.
The point is, if that was Dumbledore's idea, then he took the one person out of a wide selection of trusted individuals who had the most antagonistic relationship with Harry and then gave him free-reign on the kid's psyche. And expected it to go well. Frankly, that's dumb as shit.
/rant I have opinions. Many, many opinions about the teaching standards at Hogwarts. Very few of them are good.
I think for that one we'd have to do a bit of rereading. It's an interesting topic, though, so it might just be worth it XD And just think of all the discussions and fic it could spawn!
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Date: 2014-05-24 11:48 pm (UTC)From:I'm not entirely on Harry's side in this, because he's seriously antagonistic to Snape in the later books, but he didn't start it. Snape did. And Snape's also a mind-bogglingly awful teacher (made to work in dubious conditions for the sake of an oath he was pressured to make after making some terrible mistakes as a teenager while he was trying to correct those mistakes for entirely the wrong reasons. I'll shut up now.) Harry, in OotP, is nowhere near emotionally or mentally stable. He's not in a position to be the responsible one and learn only to get away from Snape (although it's mentioned that he tries, but gets distracted because he's curious) and he shouldn't have to be.
The point is, if that was Dumbledore's idea, then he took the one person out of a wide selection of trusted individuals who had the most antagonistic relationship with Harry and then gave him free-reign on the kid's psyche. And expected it to go well. Frankly, that's dumb as shit.
/rant I have opinions. Many, many opinions about the teaching standards at Hogwarts. Very few of them are good.
I think for that one we'd have to do a bit of rereading. It's an interesting topic, though, so it might just be worth it XD And just think of all the discussions and fic it could spawn!