Apologizing to Snape?

[zgirnius]

No: HPFGUIDX 139122

eggplant wrote:
> And if Snape were your kid would you also tell Snape to apologize to
> Harry for prying into his mind and not giving him the same opportunity
> to hide his most embarrassing memories in the Pensive? And if Harry
> had apologized how do you think he'd feel about it now after he
> watched Snape murder Dumbledore?

zgirnius:
I don't get this line of argument. Why would Harry feel any 
worse/differently now for having said to Snape at some point last 
year "Gee, I wanted to apologize for sneaking a peek at your Pensieve 
during the Occlumency lesson. It was wrong of me."? I think Harry would 
feel very much the same way. (IE, bereft, and very hateful towards 
Snape...) Do you see this apology as somehow giving Snape the 
opportunity to do something additionally hurtful? All I can picture is 
another explosion of cockroach containers and an "I DON'T WANT TO HEAR 
ABOUT THIS, POTTER!!!", which as far as I can see changes the dynamic 
between Harry and Snape in exactly no way. DO you see some worse 
possibility? If so, could you spell it out for those of us who are mot 
seeing it?

And, for the record, if I were Snape's mother...he's been needing lots 
and lots of advice about how to treat other people for about 6 books 
now. We could start far earlier in the books with the apologies!