[HPforGrownups] Re: Prank revisited. WAS: Harry begins to act like someone I know

[Mrs.) Lee Storm (God Is The Healing Force]

No: HPFGUIDX 99402

| From: snow15145 [mailto:snow15145 at yahoo.com]
| Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2004 1:38 AM
| Harry, like his mother, just can't see injustice done to anyone no
| matter how much you don't like that person, no matter what they say
| or do to you. But in this respect, where Harry sees his father as
| being bad and Snape as the victim has me extremely puzzled given the
| circumstances of what his mother said to Snape in the end, it all
| comes back to why Harry would be sympathetic to Snape, for me.

[Lee says]:

Go back before the pencieve scene.  Unfortunately, I can't give you page
numbers because I'm using Jim Dale's reading of the audio books, US. (And
I'd love to get a good copy of the audio UK editions from S. Fry.)

Anyway, the place I'm talking about is when Harry uses a "Protego" charm to
stop Snape and starts to see pitiful childhood memories of Snape being
shouted  at and cowering.  How many times had Harry been in that same
circumstance, perhaps, when he was very small?  Of course a part of him
would sympathize; he's seen parts of Severus' life that Severus would
probably wish he himself could forget.

So, IMHO, instinctively, Harry champions the weak because he knows how it
feels.  It's a rotten feeling and no one should have to go through it and if
Harry can help, he will.

That's my take on this, for whatever it's worth.

Cheers,

Lee :-)

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