Apologizing to Snape?

[colebiancardi]

No: HPFGUIDX 139134

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" 
<dumbledore11214 at y...> wrote:
> 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.

and I also agree - Harry is not mature enough at this point 
emotionally.
 
> 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:
No, it isn't a pass.  It is the way Rowling wrote the character.  I 
certainly don't like it;  but there you have it.   It is the 
difference between Harry & Snape - both are working for Dumbledore
(IMHO) and they are very different in the way they deal with their 
emotions.  Snape's is due to his work as a spy - he has to be what he 
is, otherwise he wouldn't be good at being a spy.  It is not a 
glamorous job, being a double-agent; point-counterpoint espionage is 
a grim business and isn't about glory.

I just rewatched "The Spy Who Came in From the Cold" with Richard 
Burton as Alec Leamas - the lines he delivers on his job and why 
Mundt has turned from being evil & the enemy to evil & on their side 
is a thin line.  And also his description of his job as a double-
agent.  I highly recommend this movie, as it is not a James Bond 
super-spy movie at all.  Leamas doesn't get the babe and he works on 
the edge, where even his own people are working against him.  It 
would be interesting to ask Rowling if she likes John Le Carre's 
works.


> 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 :-) 

colebiancardi:

And look where Snape is now - in the DE's lair with Voldy, having to 
*kill* Dumbledore, a man whom I believe Snape respected and loved 
very much(as a parental-like figure).  

 
again, JMHO

colebiancardi
(I really DO recommend reading and/or watching The Spy Who Came in 
from the Cold)