The length of the Pensieve Scene

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> Carol responds:
> It's a bit hard to knock someone off a pedestal who isn't on one.
> Harry hates Snape and thinks Snape hates him. .

Alla:

I disagree in a sense, Carol. Of course Harry hates Snape, but reader 
now views him as a sympathetic figure, as victim (in comparison to 
Marauders)
That is what I mean by being thrown of the pedestal.

Carol:
He blames him (at least
> for the moment) for Sirius's death and he allowed himself to accept
> Ron's and Sirius's theories that Snape was using Occlumency to harm
> him ("soften him up for Voldemort," etc.). If anything, Snape from
> Harry's perspective is worse than Snape viewed objectively.


Alla:

I don't want to go into blame for Sirius' death right now, but Harry 
did feel worse after the lessons, so he has an objective reason to 
believe that Snape was trying to harm him.

Carol:
> I'm not saying that we won't learn bad things about Snape's past--
more likely what he did as a Death Eater than anything he did in 
school.But there's no pedestal to be thrown down. If we're going to be
surprised about Snape, it's likely to be in the other direction. 

Alla:

Again, disagree in a sense. I believe that we are about to learn BAD 
things about Snape BEFORE we learn good things about him. Let's say 
for example in HBP Rowling will play with us again, by making us 
believe that Snape betrayed the Order and then we will learn that 
such thing never happened.