Snape and Harry (was Re: [HPforGrownups] Re: Harry in NEWT Potions Class?)

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> >Alla said:
> >See, to me Harry always be the wronged one and innocent one in 
their 
> >relationship

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> Derek:
> Just to be clear, I'm in no way trying to excuse Snape.  He is 
absolutely
> in the wrong in every way he's ever treated Harry.

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> mom31:
> >I hope Harry does apologize to Snape.  It will give us just one 
more example of how much better of a person Harry is than Snape.
> 
> Derek:
> Yes, this is exactly what I was trying to get at.  

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> I'm saying that Snape's a big weenie who will never make any move 
to
> better his relationship with Harry, so if the relationship will 
ever
> improve, it will be Harry stuck with improving it.  :-)
> 
> - Derek

Yes, but even if Harry can see beyond his own idiocy (after all, he 
hated Snape so much in OotP that he completely forgot that old 
Severus was a member of the order) and musters up the courage (a lot 
of which he will need) to apologize to Snape, does anyone out there 
honestly think that Snape will accept it? I can just see Harry, 
begging Snape's forgiveness for his father and his godfather's 
admittedly terrible actions while they were in school (and I was 
made fun of in high school, I know what it was like for Snape) and 
thanking Sanpe for saving his life in SS and Snape just throwing it 
back in Harry's face, with some comment about how arrogant it was 
for Harry to do such a stupid thing as assume that he could make up 
for his dad's actions. Snape has had nearly twenty years to get over 
what happened to him at Hogwarts (I've only been out of high school 
for three years and I'm over it) and it doesn't seem like he ever 
will. Harry himself got Snape right on the money when in PoA he 
called Snape pathetic, and IMHO, that's exactly what the Potions 
Master is: obsessed with causing trouble for the son of his school 
nemisis, never growing up enough to forgive and forget. I feel bad 
for Snape, of course, I really do. He clearly had a rough childhood, 
and a not so easy young adulthood, but that doesn't give him cause 
to treat anyone the way he does, especially a kid who never did a 
thing to him. Snape will never be the bigger person in ANY 
relationship, let alone that one between him and Harry, and even if 
Harry tries to forgive, I'll bet he just gets shot down. 
Meri (who hopes she won't be pelted with owls from all the Snape 
lovers out there)