Apologizing to Snape?

[fitzchivalryhk]

No: HPFGUIDX 139102

---  "eggplant107" wrote:
> 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.

Severus's character is not created overnight. His character was most
probably created by his parents negligance, and the bullying he
received from the Mauraders and other fellow students. We were shown
how Sirius and James attacked Severus unprovoked, but we were never
shown how Severus hurt other students when he was young. While Sirius
accused Severus of immersing deep in the dark arts, Sirius never said
anything about Severus cursing students other than James. Given
Sirius' hatred towards Severus, wouldn't it be a perfect excuse for
him to explain away why they bullied Severus?  The fact that Sirius
never took this line of defense suggests that Severus did not do
anything that deserved the attack and humiliation brought by the
Mauraders.

 
> 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 think you have made two wrong comparisons in your post. The only
person who can be compared to the driver or the enginner in the above
examples were Voldemort. Voldemort was the one who was directly
responsible for the death of Lily and James, not Snape. Please do not
let your hatred towards Snape blind you from the most culpable figure
in this incident, Voldemort. 

If we put Snape in the example, he would be the bartender who provided
the alcohol to the drunk driver, without knowing that he would drive a
vehicle aftewards, or the construction worker who built the bridge
according to the instruction of the engineer. Was he partly
responsible for the death of Lily and James? Perhaps. Was he the main
culprit your post seems to suggest? I think not.

fitz