[HPforGrownups] Re: Apologizing to Snape?

[Sherry Gomes]

No: HPFGUIDX 139119

 "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> wrote:

> Now, if Harry were my kid, would I
> have told him that he should
> apologize to Snape for prying 
> in the pensieve?  I think I would 




Sherry now:

i actually felt very bad when Harry looked in that pensieve and sat there
saying, no, Harry, don't do that.  I have a thing about respecting privacy.
However, on the other hand, I don't think Snape would accept or respect or
even believe, a humble or repentant Harry Potter.  Also, it was implied
upthread that Harry should have expressed remorse for what his father had
done.  Fiddlesticks.  Nobody should have to apologize for the long ago
actions of someone else.  Harry did not participate in whatever went on
between the marauders and Snape and owes Snape nothing for that.  and now,
of course, he owes him nothing at all, since he's seen Snape commit murder
with his own eyes.

It's been said that Harry's reading of the tower events is based in his
hatred of Snape, but I disagree.  It is based on what he saw with his own
eyes.  If you saw someone walk up and shoot someone, no matter how much you
loved or hated that person, you'd believe that murder had been committed.
Whatever the eventual resolution of that whole thing--and I am in the Snape
is a murderer camp--Harry can't be blamed for believing what he saw.  And to
those who object that it didn't look like an AK, I don't know that we know
that for sure, and Harry certainly does not.  He didn't even see Cedric die,
did he?  And we are never given a description of the curse that hit Sirius,
except to be told a jet of light hit Sirius or something like that.  No
color stated.

Sherry