Snape & Harry's Memory Perspective Question and then some

[Alison Williams]

No: HPFGUIDX 84042


Tonks wrote -

>Will Harry ever see eye to eye with Snape? Will they ever be able to
>look at one another without hatred?
>
>Opinions?

It has to be, doesn't it?  Unity and the dangers of pride and of
prejudice are such an underlying theme of the books.  At least
Dumbledore, Hermione and the Sorting Hat seem to think they are
important, even if no-one else is listening!  I can't believe that the
houses can go on relating to each other as if life was a game of
Quidditch.  Surely they've all got to 'grow up' in the sense of showing
some real maturity.  This would involve admitting that no-one is perfect
and no-one is irredeemable - unless they choose to be.  Harry now knows
some of the reasons for Snape being like he is, and he knows that much
of what Snape said about his father was justified.  Snape now knows that
the Sorting Hat thought that he (Harry) would have done well in
Slytherin house - i.e. that Harry has many of the qualities that
Slytherin approved of.  They've both seen something of what the other
has had to suffer.  Neither of them wanted to see these things.  They
both have a lot to get over, a lot of pride and pre-conceptions and
prejudices to admit and get past, to allow even a grudging respect for
each other.  They're both going to reject and deny this as long and hard
as they can.  

Perhaps Dumbledore was wiser than he seemed in giving Snape the job of
teaching Harry occlumency?

Alison