Why has DD never suggested Harry thank Snape?

[Kelsey Dangelo]

No: HPFGUIDX 117017


Kelsey:
Here's my humble and lame reasons why DD never
suggested that Harry thank Snape.

1. A 'thank you', in order to be sincere, should
never be suggested. Granted, a teacher should be the
one to teach a student manners, so this doesn't
really hold water.

2. DD knows that a 'thank you' from Harry Potter
would only embarrass or hurt Snape's pride. Yeah,
yeah, Snape tells Harry that he should be thanking him
on bended knee in the Shrieking Shack, but maybe
that's just an act he's putting on in front of
Sirius Black and Remus Lupin (i.e. he wants the
recognition from other people, not Harry). Snape
certainly doesn't ever mention saving Harry's life
again. He doesn't seem too proud of it, doesn't
really seem to like that he had to do it. Maybe DD
knows that BIG SECRET of Snape's (why he's on the
good side) and that a 'thank you' from Harry would
be salt in an open wound. Long and short of it: it
seems to be that maybe DD knows that Snape doesn't
want to be thanked, and particularly from Harry.

I guess I never really thought about the significance
of the fact that Harry never thanked Snape for saving
his life because the awkwardness of such a scene is
too terrible to think of. 

If Harry had said 'thank you', what would Snape
have done? What would he have said? I'm sure that
Snape would have certainly felt better about Harry
(who would have humbled himself and shown that he
wasn't his father). Then that would have ruined
their whole antagonistic relationship!

Kelsey, who doesn't presume to understand the ways
of Severus Snape.