Harry's revenge on Snape?

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 90545

{Anne}

>>And usually I would say the same about a Vampiric former 
bad guy trying todo good (Snape as a Vampire), but not here. 
Snape is already messed upenough. Adding that inhuminty 
factor will only excuse his behiavior, notexplain it--a cop out to 
say the least in regards to a very complicated,messed up man. 
But again, we won't know what Rowling will do...just that it
will be intersting...<<

Pippin:
Ah, I think I see what you're saying. And I'm sorry if I've come on 
too strong about this in the past.  To me, Rowling's  Elves, 
Vampires, Centaurs, etc are "people", and talk of them being 
less than "human" in that sense makes me want to start quoting 
Shylock. <g> But that's just me. I don't have a problem with 
mythical races  representing various states of moral 
development in other works--I just don't think Rowling is going 
there.

As far as I can see, Rowling's inhuman characters don't have a 
patent on inhumanity. The ability to do evil is not more inherent in 
one species than another, IMO. Any notion I had that witches 
and wizards are morally "better" than anyone else was 
demolished  along with the Fountain of Magical Brethren  at the 
end of OOP.

I don't think that Rowling wants us to believe that Bane has a 
talent for being nasty because  centaurs are like that, but  
humans are all basically good and only become evil through 
external circumstances. IMO, Snape has a talent for evil, whether 
it was instilled in him by human cruelty, vampiric ancestry, 
human ancestry or sheer cussedness. But he made a choice 
later in life that reversed some earlier ones, and put his talents 
to a different use.  Berating schoolchildren is  hardly admirable, 
but surely it's preferable to joining an evil megalomaniac in his 
conquest of the world!

IMO, Harry too has a nasty side, one which he has never 
cultivated because he has never wanted to be like the Dursleys 
or Draco. Now his situation is more complicated. Between his 
discoveries about his father, his hatred of Snape, which he 
believes to be righteous, and his realization that even 
Dumbledore  does things that he knows will cause pain to 
others, Harry might find himself tempted.

Pippin