Apologizing to Snape?

[colebiancardi]

No: HPFGUIDX 139131

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "vmonte" <vmonte at y...> wrote:
 
> 
> vmonte now:
> Exactly! Snape is a sick sadistic bas**rd. How can Snape be a good 
> guy? What has he learned from his past mistakes? Nothing!  
> 

Really?  How do you know that he has learned nothing from his past 
mistakes?  He may be a sadistic bastard, but DD seems to want him on 
hand.  Perhaps he is this way because he is forced to teach a bunch 
of dunderheads and really wishes he was off doing something else - 
like being left alone to stew in his own misery.  


> >dan:
> And Harry is supposed to offer to this hideous man with a DE
> history and a personal culpability in Harry's orphan status some 
kind 
> of gesture of understanding, a man who has conveniently forgot to 
tell
> Harry anything at all about his role in the death of Harry parents?
> What gesture is being asked for here? What gesture would be
> appropriate?

I don't Harry HAS to do anything - but he could.  He could take the 
highground here; after all, it is HIS story, right?  He is the hero, 
correct?  Not Snape - Snape is too deeply flawed and damaged to take 
the highground.  Snape's only function & purpose is to become a spy 
and pass information on to DD.  DD thought highly enough of Snape's 
function not to get rid of him, because he was nasty to Harry & other 
students he didn't like.   

Seems like both Harry & Snape like their little interactions 
together - they both get a perverse sense of satistifaction when they 
*cut* the other person down.  Snape, of course, had been able to get 
away with this for the first couple of years without Harry standing 
up to him, but not anymore.  

The idea that there has to be some type of *gesture* is absurd.  
There doesn't have to be - it isn't required.  However, as a person 
who has to take the highroad all the time at my job, it doesn't hurt 
me to do so.  Does that make me a better person?  I think it does.  I 
know when to stand up for certain things and when I have crossed the 
line.  I have had bosses that were sadistic bastards and I have 
ALWAYS had to take the highground with them.  

 

colebiancardi