What should Harry REALLY feel sorry for?

[eggplant9998]

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Alla wrote:
> I can only think about three things
> [Harry should feel sorry about]Harry 
> not seeing Hermione side of things
> earlier in PoA 

That is one of the few times in any of the books where Hermione was 
dead wrong; her cat was trying to kill Ron's beloved pet and she 
didn't seem to give a damn. 

> Harry looking into Snape's Pensieve 

Good for Harry!  Snape was not  fighting fair. Snape was an adult 
and a skilled professor of magic and yet he took the precaution of 
removing his most embarrassing memories
 before they started to probe each others minds. Snape did not give 
Harry, who was just a school boy, the same opportunity and that 
seems cowardly to me. It's like the heavyweight boxing champion of 
the world putting on protective padding before fighting a little boy 
while the kid gets nothing. And Harry is supposed to apologize after 
Snape delighted in humiliating Harry by bringing up the memory of a 
dog chasing him up a tree? Not a chance.

The one thing Harry REALLY should regret is stopping Lupin and  
Sirius from killing Wormtail in book 3, the biggest mistake of his 
life.  

> and of course Harry trying to cast Crucio 

That may have been the wrong thing to do, I'm not sure, but I am 
sure I'm delighted Harry did it. I don't want Harry to be TOO good, 
it's saccharine, I want him to have an edge.

Eggplant