We saw that Severus tried to make the detentions more unpleasant for Harry to make them sink in more, and that he hinted (mendaciously) that they should be continued the following year. But I think he saw that his fundamental strategy wasn’t working, and that he did come up with something else.
Now, it wasn’t actually a stupid strategy, given
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Snape’s life has been a series of spectacular errors of judgment, to put it kindly.
This has to have been his worst.
Chapter Summary: The headmaster can be very persuasive.
“He certainly knew what was right, nor could she fix on any one article of moral duty evidently transgressed, but yet she would have been afraid to answer for his conduct
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