How should Harry deal with Snape?

[dzeytoun]

No: HPFGUIDX 107851

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "huntergreen_3" 
<patientx3 at a...> wrote:
> HunterGreen:
> I'm only talking about from *Harry's* end. Even if Snape doesn't 
> change his behavior (which I doubt he will, he's too set in his 
> ways), it might help Harry deal with it better if he adopted a 
> different attitude. If he simply ignored Snape, it would make it 
> easier to not take his comments to heart. If he argues and gets 
> into a back and forth with Snape, that'll only make things worse. 
> (honestly, sometimes letting something go is the best way to 
> preserve your mental health). Look at Lupin, Snape may make his 
> little comments to him, but Lupin never really reacts or seems to 
> care. He takes Snape with a grain of salt, as he should be taken. 


Sigh.  I'm afraid the time for this is long gone.  The fact is that 
these two have come to *hate* one another.  Whoever is most at fault 
(for my money it's undeniably Snape, but choose who you please), 
we're well past the "ignoring each other" stage.  This might have 
been a good option at anytime before book five.  Now emotions have 
reached such a nadir that I just don't see it as a possibility.  
Remember, we aren't just talking about sarcastic comments anymore.  
Harry feels that Snape is complicit in the death of the only parental 
figure Harry has ever known.  You don't swallow that and go on.

Dzeytoun