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

[boyd_smythe]

No: HPFGUIDX 107725

> Dzeytoun wrote:
> <snip>
> All together, I think it is going to take a major event to make for 
> an opening between these two [Snape & Harry].  First of all, it will 
take large 
> revelations concerning the history between Snape and the Marauders, 
> as well as revelations about why Dumbledore trusts Snape.  Secondly, 
> it will take a personal development on Harry's part which will 
> probably not entail him coming to respect Snape, but which will 
> likely render Snape a minor factor in his overall view of the world.
> 
> Dzeytoun

boyd:

Can we at least agree that they've *both* been in the wrong? Snape's 
an unabashed git to Harry, and Harry suspects Snape of being ESE 
constantly.

Anyway, I think JKR is serving us a lesson in morality here: Harry 
needs to learn to look past people's shortcomings & appearances to 
their real worth; ditto for Snape. And, assuming Snape is not a double 
agent for LV, Snape has been quite worthwhile from an OoP 
perspective--and has at least tried to save Harry on a few occasions. 
And Harry, despite being a rule-breaking, attention-hogging 
son-of-a-Potter (from Snape's perspective), has defeated LV and his 
henchmen on multiple occasions now.

My guess is that JKR will set them up with a cataclismic event: the 
death of DD in book 6 (yes, one prediction I've made that will not 
change until proven wrong by canon). Harry will then need Snape as a 
guardian/teacher and to tell him the remaining secrets DD never 
revealed. Such as how he's supposed to go about killing LV, and what 
the gleam meant.

Snape, meanwhile, will need Harry because he is the one weapon against 
LV. Snape will have to persuade him that he is not ESE!Snape, that 
Harry is not HopelessWithoutDD!Harry, and that they both have a common 
goal: defeating LV. Probably we'll get a little more Snape backstory 
here--juicy!--and maybe even see a pair of apologies.

--boyd
I just hope they don't hug!