Harry is an ungratful spoiled brat. Was: Snape is evil

jazmyn jazmyn at pacificpuma.com
Sun Jul 6 18:45:31 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 67831

Harry should go to Snape and beg forgiveness and thank him profusely for 
all the times he has helped him.  Why?

Snape saved his worthless hide in his first year.

Snape risked exposing painful childhood memories to Harry, which showed 
what a bully James was. Yes he tried to teach him occlumency anyways. 
Being as Harry looks so much like James and that Snape hated James for a 
good reason, it would be an aggravating thing for Snape to have to do.

Snape gave fake Veritaserum to Umbridge.

Snape warned the Order after realizing that Harry had a vision about 
Sirius despite his hatred of him, then went to look for Harry in the 
forest, which with the way the centaurs were behaving, would have been 
far more dangerous then normal.  If Snaoe were evil, he would have not 
warned anyone or risked life and limb to go into the forest.  One 
guesses that Snape saved Umbridge's worthless hide during that little 
trip, much as he likely despised her.

Dumbledore trusts Snape and repeatedly defends him.

Grumpiness and bad temper do not an evil person make.  You can have 
cheerful evil people and grumpy good people.  With Snape's obviously bad 
childhood, its no wonder he lacks a bubbly personality.  Being as he 
changed sides and left the DEs shows a great deal of willpower and 
strength on his part.

Harry tries to transfer blame to Snape, when in fact, Harry is to blame 
for what happened to Sirius. If Harry had listened to the adults trying 
to help him, had listened to Snape, Sirius would have lived.

Harry often uses Snape as a measure of how bad something is. ie. 
Something being better or worse then Potions Class with Snape.  Till he 
found out the truth about his father, he felt not a bit of regret about 
his feelings about Snape and is in fact angry that he feels sorry for 
him, but doesn't say anything to Snape about it.  What would Sererus say 
if Harry said, "I'm sorry my father was a bullying worthless git, but 
I'm not my father and  hope to prove myself a better person."

Without Sirius and with the need for harry to learn to block Voldemort 
even more important, will Snape try to train him again?  Will Snape 
start to feel sorry for Harry, now that Sirius is gone? Perhaps becoming 
  a somewhat reluctant, but gruff father figure to Harry?

The son healing the wounds of the father?

Jazmyn







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