Apologizing to Snape?

[eggplant107]

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"fitzchivalryhk" fitzchivalryhk at ... Wrote:

> Voldemort was the one who was directly
> responsible for the death of Lily 
> and James, not Snape. 

There is no way Snape can claim to be guilt free in this incident, he
may not have known that passing the information would lead to the
death of the Potters but Snape is not stupid, he must have known it
would place some infant and his parents in grave danger.

> His character was most probably 
> created by his parents negligance,
> and the bullying he received from 
> the Mauraders and other fellow students.

Lots of people get bullied and lots of people have less than perfect
parents, but they don't turn into a Snape, they don't become
murderers. And even if you're right, so what? Explaining why somebody
is a monster does not make them one bit less of a monster. 

"Cathy Drolet" <cldrolet at s...> wrote: 

> Imagine, being reminded every day,
> for six years, of the mistake you
> made years before. His response to Harry,
> the snarkiness, the nastiness, is the
> only way Snape knows how to deal 
> with what he is feeling

It's entirely possible that you're right and that is the source of
Snape's dreadful behavior toward Harry, but I don't understand why you
couldn't rephrase your statement above by simply saying Snape is evil.
Any halfway decent human being would have gone out of his way to be
kind to a boy you had done such a great wrong, but Snape chose to do
the opposite.  

Eggplant