Apologizing to Snape?

[msbeadsley]

No: HPFGUIDX 139219

colebiancardi:
<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.>

Uh-uh. If you HAVE to take it, it ain't the highground, it's the ONLY
ground.

But I agree it would have been lovely to see Harry cool off toward
Snape and re-interpret him as someone broken and pathetic and really
just not worth building up a head of steam over. The thing is, that's
really hard to do with someone who got ahold of you when you were a
child and tormented you with every sign of pleasure on a sort of
indefinite basis. It's a lot easier to have insight into people who
don't have the ability, tendency, and frequent opportunity to trigger
your fight or flight response! I wouldn't expect Harry to get
sufficient perspective until after he graduates. Oh, wait, he may not,
there's this quest thing. And Snape just (apparently) murdered the
headmaster and fled with a bunch of Death Eaters. Never mind, then.
;-)

Oh, and to the person who suggested Harry take the high road by
quitting Potions (as Hermione quit Divination): the first list of
required supplies Harry got from Hogwarts required a cauldron and
other Potions class ingredients; so far as we know, EVERYONE had to
take Potions at least through O.W.L.'s. No?

Sandy aka msbeadsley