[HPforGrownups] Harry is an ungratful spoiled brat. Was: Snape is evil

[Lark Austin-Black]

No: HPFGUIDX 67845

--- jazmyn <jazmyn at pacificpuma.com> wrote:
> Harry should go to Snape and beg forgiveness and
> thank him profusely for 
> all the times he has helped him.  Why?
> 
> 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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You make wonderful points, it was only in the first
book that I really had suspicions about Snape's
loyalty...never again after that, despite what the
characters believed...I just wonder if anyone
remembers what it is like to be 15/16 years old and
have your life a "living hell" (granted, nothing like
Harry's)--everything seems even more amplified in
terribleness at this age--I am not so far from 15 that
I don't remember what it feels like, and it is always
easier to blame someone else for things that are bad
in your life. 

 In the beginning Harry learns that Snape
and his father hated each other, so this gives him a
reason to hate Snape because he loves the idea of his
father so much--this makes him oblivious to how he
doesn't really treat Hermione or Neville (etc.) any
better, just the Slytherin kids (*his* house)...It
seems to Harry that Snape is picking on him...this
impression has lasted all this time and Harry has
basically turned Snape into his "root of all evil" for
his problems...I know there is a part of Snape that
really is looking out for Harry and he does have an
extent of affection for him, but to show that for
Snape it would basically be a sign of weakness,
because of the feelings he still has about James (and
Sirius). 

 As an analogy, Snape is to Harry is as James
and Sirius were to Snape...is there much difference? 
Probably Snape had more reason to believe that James
and Sirius were intentionally mean (and they were),
but still, they could not have been the *only* reason
he had a bad time at school, just it seemed easier to
blame them (like, I'm not so sure he fit in well w/
the other kids when he was so into the dark arts,
etc.)

~LA-B

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