What should Harry REALLY feel sorry for?

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No: HPFGUIDX 116791


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "eggplant9998" <eggplant9998 at y...> wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 

Of course he did.
Quite frankly I wonder where you're getting your ideas from.

1. It  was not a *fight* any more than Harry producing his Patronus
against Lupin's Boggarts was a fight.

2. Snape tells Harry (and us) that memories are not neatly filed for 
access and interpretation. What you find is what you get.

3. Snape has been working against Voldy for longer than Harry has
been alive. He's not going to trust his secrets to some teenage whiner
who can't be trusted to keep his mouth or his mind shut.

Kneasy