Snape and Harry again.

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 113254

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Nora Renka" 
<nrenka at y...> wrote:

> Should this all turn out to be idle speculation, I will be the
first 
 to bow to reality and admit that things *are* as simple as they 
appear.  I have the sneaking suspicion that we're being set up 
for a  reversal, but I could be completely wrong.  That'll learn me 
to  speculate.
> 

Pippin:

The trouble is, there's already been a reversal. Harry went from 
seeing his father as the man who represented (much as he did 
for Snape) everything he wanted to be, to someone whom even 
his friends admitted was an arrogant little berk. It seems to me 
what you suspect is an un-reversal, something that will put 
James, Lupin and Sirius back on the pedestal, leaving only Peter  
to have fallen from grace.  

Sirius and James are dead, so the only point I can see in giving 
Harry more back story about them is so that Harry can 
understand himself better.  Does he need to see himself as as a 
saintly being who can do no wrong, or as a struggling mortal, 
guilty of sin and error, but not beyond redemption all the same?

Pippin