in defense of Harry OOP Spoiler

[alicepmint]

No: HPFGUIDX 67024

 
> I never ment to imply that Snape was still working for LV, but It's 
> undeniable that Snape holds a grudge against Harry and his father.  
> He has frequently told Harry about how arrogant his father was, and 
> probably supects that Harry dosn't believe him.  This memory shows 
> that apparently Snape has been truthfull about Harry's dad 
(although 
> it clearly only shows one side of the story), and at the same times 
> hurts Harry, by showing him that his father was arrogant.  None of 
> this proves that Snape is still a DE, it simply proves he is a man 
> with a grudge against Harry and his father, who is still looking 
for 
> a way to get even.
 

As petty as Snape's grudges against James might seem to some people, 
Snape is not petty enough to scheme such booby trap to deliberately 
to hurt Harry by letting him see the memories as revenge. It was 
obviously an accident. Snape had put his memories into the Pensieve 
EVERY single time at the beginning of their lessons in front of 
Harry. It's a habit. And when Malfoy interfered it was an unplanned 
instruion (given their lessons were supposed to be secretive and 
Malfoy was genuinely surprised while Snape was caught unprepared). He 
had to hurry-off Malfoy out to do whatever task. It read like an 
unplan, unprepared incident. And Snape's anger at Harry felt genuine 
enough (Snape was cold most of the time, he only lost control of his 
temper once during POA, it must took real pain to provoke his emotion 
like that). I just do not get the impression this whole Pensieve 
thing is some scam (which would be pretty cheap and silly as a plot 
device). I know some of you want desperately to "bleach" Harry guilt 
by blacken Snape (who's always the easy-target to blame, he's nasty, 
he must be *EVIL*!), you guys are just missing the point of that 
scenarios. It's about shades of grey. Harry invaded Snape's privacy, 
but gain the revelation of his parents, and Snape's hurt, lesson's 
cancel, confrontation with Sirius/Lupin, gain new knowledge about 
growing up...etc. It's a chain of events and complications that 
eventually led to the outcome. No one is to blame really. Called it 
twist of fate.

Alice