Harry's story , NOT Snape's (was Re: "An old man's mistakes")

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Merry Kinsella <merylanna at y...> wrote:
> The pensieve stuff doesn't bother me as much as Harry's stubborn
> anger at critical Snape/Harry interactions. There are occlumency
> moments where Snape is nearly nice. 


I don't know.. I see this from Harry's view.  By the time he takes
these lessons he hates Snape.. and with good reason.  Snape is always
nasty to him.  Snape would have had him expelled by now.  And Snape
always favors Draco who Harry depises.  Hearing Snape speak probably
makes Harry furious.

I guess I can relate becuase I had similar relationship with someone
in my life.  And at times they would be nice, but I had so much anger
toward them for all the bad things they had said to me or put me
through , I couldn't even listen to them speak at this point.  

And Snape is really rude to Harry. 

I just finished re-reading 5 and now I'm re-reading 6.  I'm not so
sure I think Snape is completely evil anymore.  It really could go
either way. On the one hand, I feel there are all sorts of hints that
the Slytherin tribe is all about saving themselves and once the vow
was made Snape was all about making sure he didn't die.  

On the other hand, I'm not sure he had to make that vow.  If he said
no I will not aid Draco if he can't complete this, he could have
insisted upon saying Lord V wants Draco to do and this is going behind
his back.  On the other hand, he seemed to hate being considered a
coward.  

I really can't believe it's only August .. less than 2 months since
the book came out and we have to wait so long for book 7.

:-(

Robyn