Snape and Prophecy and Harry WAS:Re: TBAY: Definitely NOT a Snape Theory (lo

[pippin_999]

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" <dumbledore11214 at y...> 
wrote:
> Alla:
> 
> Oh, you said the "key words",actually. :-) Harry has a RIGHT to be 
> angry with him. That is all I am asking for, because I very very 
> strongly disagreed with Pippin's argument about Harry's selfishness 
> in blaming Snape for part in his parents' deaths, even though Snape 
> IMO undoubtedly played a part in Potters' deaths. I am arguing that 
> Harry's anger was a righteous anger and DESERVED anger. It is just 
> IMO Snape's guilt in many things are in the eyes of the beholder, but 
> Snape's guilt in Potter's deaths is IMO a fact. I realise that not 
> everybody agrees with that, but this is my opinion.
> 
> So, I am all for reconciliation, but only after we learn from Snape 
> that he is actually sorry for Potters' deaths. 

Pippin:
Harry has a right to be angry over the loss of his parents. We agree
there. But to be obsessively angry with Snape about it when there
are other people whose responsibility is far more direct  suggests to
me that he is doing it to avoid more painful feelings, including the
realization that the parent who goes to war  does so knowing
that he risks dying in battle, leaving his children alone. Molly 
acknowledges this in OOP, IIRC, and Lupin assures her the Order
won't let her children starve. Well, the Order didn't let Harry starve,
exactly, but Molly has a right to be concerned considering what
did happen to him. But she didn't give up the fight, even after
Arthur was nearly killed. I don't think James and Lily would have
either, even if they knew that Harry was going to wind up with
the Dursleys instead of Sirius.

It's canon that Voldemort is responsible for deciding that the 
prophecy was important, that  James and Lily were the parents of 
the prophecy child, and that they, or at least James and Harry,
should be destroyed. It's canon that Peter betrayed the Potters.
Yet Harry, and quite a few readers, seem obsessed with revenge on 
Snape. I think that's   because we know we are never going to get
any satisfaction out of Voldemort, and Peter is so craven that 
seeing him humiliated isn't going to count for much -- when
have we not seen him humiliated?

Pippin