Father - figures (Was: Snape the Father)

[ritadear2]

No: HPFGUIDX 38013

Marianne wrote:

"Harry does react like a typical kid when Sirius takes him to task 
in GoF for walking off into the forest with Krum and demands that 
Harry promise not to do anything like that again. "Who's he to 
lecture me about being out-of-bounds...after all the stuff he did at 
school?" But, Harry is only mildy miffed at this; whereas had 
Snape said the same thing to him, Harry would have been very 
annoyed."

I noticed a similar thing in PoA, when Snape was yelling at Harry 
for his head being seen at Hogsmeade.  Everything Snape said 
was true, that folks were going out of their way to protect him, yet 
he is so arrogant that he risks going there anyway.  When Snape 
said it to him, he reacted defensively with anger, but then when 
Lupin said basically the same thing to him (in a different way), he 
was receptive to it and even felt guilty.   Snape just isn't willing to 
coddle Harry and his ego when pointing out his bad judgement.

Rita