Apologizing to Snape?

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 139133

Colebiancardi:
> 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? 

Alla:

He IS the hero, that is why I am sure that he would forgive Snape at 
the end, but he is also a child and I think that it is not very 
realistic to expect for him to do so yet.


Colebiancardi:
 Not Snape - Snape is too deeply flawed and damaged to take 
> the highground.

Alla:

Isn't it a bit too convenient? Snape is too flawed  and damaged that 
is why he gets a pass for his horrific actions, even though he is an 
adult and teacher  but Harry is expected to apologise even though he 
is a child  and the wronged party through and through ( IMO only of 
course)?


Colebiancardi:
 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. 

Alla:

And look where it got Dumbledore :-) 


 > Pippin:
<snip>  
> Snape did respect Harry's sexual privacy -- he did not actually 
force 
> Harry to relive his memory of kissing Cho, and did not try to 
access
> this memory again. 

Alla:

I thought Harry did not allow Snape to see those memories and pushed 
him out. I can be wrong though and don't have OOP with me to check.


> Pippin:
>  All he needed to say was, "I shouldn't have looked in your 
pensieve,
> sir, and I'm sorry."  Since Harry was  indeed sorry he looked, and
> knew it was wrong, what on earth would he have lost by admitting 
it?

Alla:

But Snape did not give him a chance to say that, Pippin. He threw 
him from the office right away and did his best to avoid him after 
that, no?

And yes, I believe that Harry would have apologised on the spot just 
as he did to Dumbledore in GoF. Just me of course.

And in book 6, when Harry indeed learns about Snape's part in his 
past, I believe  thinking of apologising is the last part on his 
mind and understandably so.


JMO,

Alla