How should Harry deal with Snape

[dzeytoun at cox.net]

No: HPFGUIDX 107899

Pippin said:

What Harry needs to do is change the way he reacts to the 
bullying, not because Snape is making him, but because Harry 
has that power and that choice. He, unlike Snape, is not in thrall 
to compulsive behavior. Harry can't change the rules: as long as 
Snape is a teacher and Harry a student, Snape will have ways to 
abuse his power, and as long as Harry is human, Snape will be 
able to find some weakness to exploit. But Harry can change 
the game.

Instead of playing, "Every time Snape humiliates me, he wins," 
he can change the game to "Every time I keep my temper and 
don't mouth off, I win." Then insults won't be a way of keeping 
score, he won't have to take them  seriously and he can 
concentrate on visualizing that vulture hat every time Snape 
starts in on him.

Who knows, Harry might eventually be able to say, quietly, "Yeah, 
dad and Sirius were berks, sometimes," and Snape would be so 
astounded he'd melt right through the floor like one of Neville's 
cauldrons.

DZEYTOUN:  Oh dear, I hope things don't get this insipid.  After five years of 
abuse Harry decides to take a page out of "An Officer and a Gentleman."

Snape has been the one who has abused Harry consistently for five years.  It is 
to *Snape* that the consequences and changes must come home to roost, *not* to 
Harry.