Apologizing to Snape? (was: Harry's story, not Snape's)

[phoenixgod2000]

No: HPFGUIDX 139078

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, <lady.indigo at g...> wrote:

> I'm taking all of Snape, Lupin, and Sirius's remarks into account 
when I say 
> that Snape had definitely been targeted alone, once as the subject of 
> attempted murder/grevious assault, and we certainly never heard Lupin 
or 
> Sirius talk about the *Marauders* being attacked and abused. Don't 
you think 
> we would have, at least as a 'you did it too!' retort of some kind?
> The fact that Snape's use of Sectumsempra involves a single cut on 
James's 
> face when it's shown to be capable of much worse is very telling, 
too, about 
> how little Snape either was able to or chose to retaliate.

I'm going to try and post more on this tomorrow so I will quickly point 
out a few quick things.

1- Snape is complicit in the deaths of Harry's parents and one of the 
architechs of virtually every piece of misery in his life. maybe I am 
simple minded but not only does that relieve Harry of any obligation to 
appologize to Snape, in my mind it pretty much justifies anything Harry 
wants to do against Snape-up to and including beating Snape to a bloody 
pulp with his bare hands. That is how strongly I feel about what Snape 
did.

2- If Harry were to appologize to Snape, I think it would be seen as an 
act of weakness. This is a guy whose school nickname boils down to 
sniveler. you get that kind of nickname by crying on the playground in 
front of the other kids. I think Snape so hates weakness in himself and 
others because of his past there is no way any apology would be seen as 
anything other than weak and snivelly. He would use that at every 
opportunity to try and break Harry down further. of course that is just 
the way I read his character.

3- You seem to put a lot of stock in the fact that Remus and Sirius 
validate the events in the pensieve. But if you trust them on that, why 
don't you trust them when they say that Snape gave as good as he got? 
We seen one scene and you extrapolate that to mean that Snape was 
always a victim and James was always a bully. But if Sirius and Remus 
are telling the truth as you seem to think they were then Snape would 
also have some bullying in his past.

phoenixgod2000