Apologies and responsibility

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 139230

> zgirnius:
We're saying at this 
> point, we would suggest you owe your boss a simple, dignified 
> apology. *ONLY* for having peeked at her papers, not for the 
contents 
> thereof. 
<snip>
 Along the lines of, "I 
> get that you do not like my father. As far as I am concerned, 
that's 
> between you and him. I hope that in the future we can work 
together 
> as professionals."


Alla:

Oh, but that is not what Lady Indigo was saying at least how I read 
her argument. You don't insist that Harry somehow owes Snape for 
actions of his father, right?

The idea that Harry somehow is obligated to tell Snape that he was 
right about James  after Snape degrated Harry's dead father over and 
over again when he had no right to do so in the first place is the 
one I take exception to.

I don't think that on the theoretical level  anybody would object 
that Harry owed Snape an apology after Pensieve accident for LOOKING 
into pensieve only , definitely not me.

I am starting talk in circles, but I am going to say it again - I 
just do not think it is realistic at all to expect Harry who grew up 
being bullied to think that apology would change anything and  there 
was nobody whom he could learn from otherwise.

I also still believe that despite what I said above, such apology 
may have happened  but for Snape throwing Harry out and then  just 
timing was wrong - Snape was avoding him Sirius dead, etc, etc. And 
definitely in book 6 Harry had a lot of other things on his mind.

Actually Sandy's post 139219 expresses my feelings perfectly.


JMO,

Alla.