How should Harry deal with Snape?

[dzeytoun]

No: HPFGUIDX 107941

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "kiricat2001" <Zarleycat at a...> 
wrote:

> I predict that at some point we will see Snape a nasty comment about 
> Sirius' demise, and Harry will not let it get to him on an emotional 
> level.  I think that Harry will go a long way towards showing his 
> maturity when he admits to himself that his own actions played a part 
> in Sirius' death, and that Sirius' own nature also entered into the 
> equation.
> 
> Maybe it's not realistic to expect a 16- or 17-year-old kid to act at 
> this level of maturity, but, since the series is about Harry (and not 
> Snape) I fully expect that at some point Harry will show a greater 
> level of emotional maturity than Snape.  I will not be at all 
> surprised that when Snape makes a disparaging remark about Sirius' 
> death (whether to goad Harry or to test Harry's strength in not 
> crumbling in the face of it) he will be confronted with a response 
> from Harry that is much more mature and dignified than Snape expects, 
> or, indeed that Snape could ever hope to come close to expressing.



And of course, we have driven this debate to a polarity (as we always 
do).  It is entirely possible that JKR will craft an ending to this 
that will satisfy most of us (i.e. that will allow Harry to take the 
initiative through greater maturity BUT will also allow for Snape's 
sins to come home to roost).  For instance, imagine Snape says 
something disparaging about Sirius at an Order meeting or some such 
and Harry responds coldly with something like "That is all very well, 
Professor, but we need to focus on the present.  I am here to do 
that, and I hope you are as well."  Snape would then have the choice 
of accepting the opening with however much ill-grace but, being 
Snape, would probably blow up and thus humiliate himself in front of 
the entire Order (or whoever).

That would, of course, only make Snape more enraged.  But I think 
that the potions master is largely beyond redemption (at least in 
this regard).  Besides, I also think it's almost a given that he 
won't survive the series in any case.

Dzeytoun