Apologies and responsibility

[eggplant107]

No: HPFGUIDX 139207

<lady.indigo at g...> wrote:

> Regarding what Harry has done wrong,
> I only make these points:
> Snape had important skills to teach
> Harry, and Harry never even tried to
> tough these lessons out

And in light of what we have just learned in the new book it seems
entirely possible, perhaps even probable, that Snape was deliberately
sabotaging the lessons. Certainly Harry did not trust Snape and trust
is essential in a Occlumency teacher. 

> Harry intruded on a private and
> humiliating memory of Snape's

And good for Harry!

> and never made a full attempt at
> apology for doing so.

Harry never made ANY attempt at apology and I would have lost a lot of
respect for him if he had; and by the end of book 6 he would have lost
 respect for himself too.
 
> Harry never told Snape that what
> his father did was wrong

Because you can not apologize for what somebody else did and making
Snape feel better was, quite understandably, not very high on Harry's
priority list.

> Harry also never told Snape that 
> to a degree Snape was right about
> his father

And that was fortunate because now that we have a better understanding
of the sort of man Snape is we can speculate on the sort of things he
did when he was 15, and so the case is less strong that James was just
a bully. I have a hunch that if we knew more about Snape the boy we
would have more sympathy for James and less for Snape.

And you just don't tell a man you hate with a passion and who hates
your guts even more that your father was no good.

Eggplant