HP as Morality Play (was Re: Harry learning from Snape )

[dzeytoun]

No: HPFGUIDX 114781


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" 
<dumbledore11214 at y...> wrote:
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> 
>  Dzeytoun:
> > Actually, I wasn't talking about Harry there.  I was referring to 
> a 
> > couple of real-life situations where I had to step in and deal 
> with 
> > extremely messy and complicated affairs that would have been much 
> > easier on EVERYONE had they been confronted earlier.  
> 
> Alla:
> 
> OK I understand that, but I was specifically talking about Harry. 
> So, you don't think that if Harry ignores Snape for the saek of 
> saving WW from Voldemort, it would be selfish behaviour on his part?

Not selfish in this instance, no -- providing that he does not just 
dust off his hands and walk away, leaving Snape for some other poor 
soul to deal with.

Now, another problem I have with this whole argument is that we know 
Harry only has two years left to deal with Voldemort.  Harry doesn't 
know that.  If he DID know, then I would not be opposed to the idea 
of him taking an "I'll deal with YOU later," attitude toward Snape 
and temporarily focusing elsewhere, providing he still makes it very 
clear that he will not accept Snape's abuse as warranted or justified.
Then he could focus his energies on the abusive git and put him in 
his place.

I do have an enormous problem with the idea that NOT knowing this, 
Harry should just start smiling at Snape's abuse and say it's for the 
greater good.  For all anybody knows, as of now, the final 
confrontation with Voldemort may well be thirty years in the future.

Dzeytoun