[HPforGrownups] Re: HRH and their Prefect badges-Pretty long

[Nicholina ODonnell]

No: HPFGUIDX 72224

From: serenadust :

<lots of snipping>
> > You mean like he handled the responsibility for learning 
> Occlumancy, 
> > which everyone from Hermione, to Sirius, to Dumbledore himself 
> > stressed that he needed to master? He certainly didn't handle 
that 
> > responsibility too well, did he?


Greatelderone:
> True it was his fault, but at the same time Dumbledore also 
admitted 
> that it was also partially his mistake for not realizing that 
Snape 
> would never get over the memories of the abuse that he received at 
> the hands of Sirius and James.

From: serenadust:
>Still, Snape would have continued teaching him if he had ever 
>bothered to ask, or to have actually apologised for using the 
>pensive to witness Snapes humiliation at James' hands.  Harry bears 
>the responsibility for not having done the most critical thing that 
>Sirius, Lupin, and Dumbledore asked of him, and Sirius paid for the 
>mistake with his life.  Poor Harry has to live with that knowledge 
>now.

How do you know that Snape would have continued teaching him if he had ever bothered to ask or apologize?  I don't at all think that this is something we can take for granted.  Snape did, after all, tell him to leave his office and never come back again.  I know that this is something that might not be truly meant when said in the heat of passion.  However, as far as I know there is nothing to support this.  

That said, I do think Harry should have apologized.

Nicholina





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