Severus giving up/Harry seeing the other side of his father

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Alla:

I will say more. Not only Snape chose to give up, I believe he wanted to give up. I believe that he hated that task from the beginning and used pensieve incident as convenient excuse to get out of that task.

Oryomai:
*calms down* Ok, here I go *g*.  I think the fact that Severus hated the task from the beginning is canon.  It's like "Harry's eyes are green" or "Hermione is in Gryffindor".  And the Pensieve incident was the reason the lessons ended.  That's true.

*But* I don't think of a microsecond that Severus set it up so that he would get out of lessons.  Severus isn't that good of an actor.  He couldn't have faked that anger.  That was Shrieking Shack anger, that was.  And why would anyone let the son of the man who tortured you in school see what you went through?  What's that you say?  It changed Harry's opinion of his father?  I think it's good that Harry saw the other side of his father.  It's never beneficial to believe that someone is a total saint.

Oryomai
--Who notices that no one touched her "What's wrong with being bad" post.