Apologizing to Snape? ( Apologizing to Hitler)

[eggplant107]

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 <lady.indigo at g...> wrote:

> if Harry found the maturity
> to pity him [Snape]

A man like Snape can deal with somebody hating him, but if somebody
pitied him I believe it would push him into a homicidal fury, or
rather another homicidal fury.  

> the fact that, at least concerning
> Harry's father, *Snape was right*.

Before I read HBP I might have agreed with you, but not now, not now
when we know what sort of creature Snape really is. Before HBP many of
us, myself included, sometimes liked to fantasies that Snape was not
as bad as he seemed to be, but now we know he was much worse than he
seemed to be. Monsters of Snape's magnitude are not created overnight,
I have a very strong hunch that even at the age of 15 he had done
things that well deserved the punishment he received at the hands of
James. I once thought James a bully, I no longer do.

Let me challenge the good Snape people for a minute and I won't even
bring up the small matter of him murdering the greatest and kindest
living wizard. Dumbledore said Snape was sorry he had a part in the
murder of Harry's parents, but can that be true? Let's put the best
possible face on it and say he didn't deliberately perform actions
that he thought would lead to the death of the Potter's, he's still at
least as culpable as a drunk driver who killed someone, or an engineer
who made a design mistake causing a bridge to collapse with
casualties. If you had made such a blunder that made a one year old
boy an orphan would you devote 6 years of your life trying to make
that boy as miserable as possible when he was a teenager?  Snape did.

> I'm not even expecting the apology 
> to come in Book 5, when Harry was
> unfit for it, but in Book 6

What on earth is Harry supposed to apologize for? Snape, coward that
he is, tried to protect his most embarrassing memories but he didn't
give Harry the same opportunity. If Harry had apologized to Snape by
the end of book 6 he would have felt like a Jew who apologized to
Hitler for laughing at his funny looking mustache.    

> he decided to blame Snape for Sirius

And in book 6 Snape brags that he played a key part in Sirius's death.

> hate him for every little thing

Little things like Dumbledore's murder.

> and mouth off to him 

Well boo hoo, I sure hope Harry didn't hurt Snape's delicate feelings,
that would be a horrible tragedy 

> Harry's moving further and further
> towards the Dark Side of the Force
> through his hate

I have my doubts that is true but actually I hope it is because I
think it would make an interesting story.

Eggplant