What should Harry REALLY feel sorry for?

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 116890


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

2. Harry never once thanking Snape for saving his life in PS.  Not 
> even a note.  OK, Snape might not have appreciated it, but you'd 
> think the boy would at least try.  Snape worked very hard that 
year, 
> as far as we (and Harry) can see, to protect Harry, unlike any of 
> the rest of the staff.  Thanking Snape would be difficult, but it 
> would have been right.  Harry should at least have felt he ought 
> to.  But he seems to have no guilt over having suspected Snape all 
> year, and no compunction at all to say a simple thank you.  If it 
> were me, I'd have felt pretty damn guilty about the whole thing.

Geoff:
Hannah, Hannah, Harry is eleven; he's a boy.

When I was that age, I would only actually think about doing 
something like this when my mother said to me "Now you must write a 
thank you letter to So-and-so to thank them for whatever".

Might make an interesting letter though...

"Dear Professor Snape
Thank you for saving me. I hope you will enjoy going back to hating 
my father's memory in peace.

Love
Harry"

Geoff
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