[HPforGrownups] Re: How should Harry deal with Snape? (was: Why Snape doesn't have to be human)

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 107688

> Neri:
> But what should Harry do, how 
> should he behave, in order to get from Snape a reasonable 
> treatment?  What can Harry do that would actually work?


He should go to Snape and say, "I apologize for poking my head into
your pensieve.  It was an invasion of your privacy and I shouldn't
have done it.  I particularly regret it because it showed me a side
of my father that I never expected to see.  I'm sorry he did that."

That's it.  Four sentences that would totally confound Snape and
up-end a lot of his preconceived notions about Harry.

I'm sure the main reason that Snape put the memories in the pensieve
before each lesson was because he was convinced that after his brawl
with Sirius at Christmas time that Harry knew all about the memory
anyway.  After all, he'd heard Sirius call Snape "Snivellus" (btw,
anyone else think for a minute when they first read it that it was
some kind of a spell?) and I'm sure he thought that as soon as Snape
left the house that Harry had got the whole story from Sirius about
how they used to call him that at school, etc. etc.  

It would also explain why Snape was so particularly prickly about
being addressed as "sir" during the lessons.  He was on alert for any
signs of snide behaviour from Harry.


		
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