Apologizing to Snape?

[meriaugust]

No: HPFGUIDX 139223

Sandy aka msbeadsley wrote: 
(snip) 
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. 

Meri now, not having posted in a good while. 
Do you really consider Snape to be "broken and pathetic"? I would 
consider him to be the exact opposite of that. Those two adjectives 
conjure up an entirely different wizard: Pete Pettigrew. But Snape 
seems to me to be calculating and clever, always seems to know 
exactly what he's doing and what is going on. In fact in six books I 
don't think we've ever seen him panic under duress or not stand up 
for himself. (Even in the pensieve scene he doesn't take James and 
Sirius' abuse lying down...okay admittedly he's up in the air but he 
doesn't quail does he?) I mean, he's pathetic in the sense that he 
is a grown man who gets his jollies off torturing little children, 
but as many have argued on this very list, that probably has more to 
do with his teaching style than anything else. But broken? I don't 
see that. I can just picture him coming over to DD's side during the 
first war, head held high and not looking back and not caring if 
he's judged. He's a forceful personality, I can't ever picture Snape 
being broken. 
Meri