Snape & Harry

[evangelina839]

No: HPFGUIDX 68374

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "M.Clifford"
<valkyrievixen at y...> wrote:
> 
> Let me be the first to say I agree. Harry owes Snape no apologies!
> Perhaps, *we* are able to construe inferences of Snape as a heroic 
> figure fighting *for* Harry, but Harry is a lone embattled survivor 
> in his own right and until Snape comes up with the goods as Harry's 
> ally in canon he remains a foe.
> It may well be a disguise, it may well be anything we can make it. 
> I do not dispute that Snape's heroics as a defector/spy are in 
> Harry's plain veiw. Forefront, however, is Harry standing in battle 
> with his own courage and his own tenacity the things that pull him 
> from the clutches of death.
> Harry owes Snape no apology.
> Valky

I completely agree with you; if Harry is ever to be able to trust
Snape, it will most 
likely require an apology from Snape. I do however think that this
will eventually 
happen, since I believe the Occlumency lessons have made the two
understand each 
other better. Remember Snape's first glimpse (assuming now he sees
everything Harry 
sees in this sequence) of Harry's early childhood memories - first
Harry's jealousy as 
Dudley rides past on a brand new bike - then Harry being chased up a
tree by Aunt 
Marge's dog and all of the Dursleys laughing at him from below - and
then the 
Sorting Hat telling him he would do well in Slytherin... don't you
think Snape could 
relate to all of that? He was presumably envious of James, and he was
being laughed 
at trying to get on a broom (if that was Snape, which I think it
was). And Harry 
understood completely how the event he saw in the Pensieve made Snape
feel. So, 
yeah... I believe they'll work things out eventually. ;) Provided
Snape apologizes!

evangelina