Snape and Harry WAS Re: Pensieves objectivity AND: Dumbledore's integrity

[erinellii]

No: HPFGUIDX 79813

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Pen Robinson <pen at p...> wrote:

> What Harry did equates more nearly with a guest reading his host's 
> personal journal/diary.  If a guest *did* do so, would the guest 
(or  anyone?) think it unreasonable for the host to be mightily 
peeved?   Particularly if the diary was a truly *personal* document 
detailing the writer's feelings.  I don't think it matters if the 
diary was left on a  desk in the living room while the host went to 
answer the door, or whatever - the guest has *no right* to open it.
> 
> In the circumstances - a violation even worse than reading 
someone's  diary - Snape's emotional reaction is not surprising.  
Certainly as a  responsible adult he *should* have better self-
control, but Harry Potter has just done something well-nigh 
unforgiveable.  I can't bring  myself to classify it as mere 'bad 
manners'.
> 
> Pen



Reading a diary?  Oh, no, I'll go you one worse than that.  Given 
where that memory almost went to, I compare Harry's actions to 
snapping nude pictures of someone without their permission and then 
posting them all over the internet. Cause for all Snape knows, that 
is exactly what Harry is going to do- spread it all over school, or 
at least tell Ron and Hermione.  Now if you found out that someone 
had been taking nude photos of you in the shower without your 
knowledge or permission, and was going to post those photos all over 
the internet, and you had no way of stopping them or getting the 
pictures back-- wouldn't you scream and throw things also?  I think 
that Snape showed remarkable poise under the cicumstances.

Erin (an unapologetic Snape apologist- not in everything, mind you, 
but definitely in the pensieve privacy violation)