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

[Peg DiGrazia]

No: HPFGUIDX 145562

> > 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...

Amiable Dorsai
> Straw, camel, back.

Pippin:
<<The blame belongs far more to the camel packer than to the one who sold him the straw.

I would hardly insist that the fellow who sold the straw  beg my forgiveness sixteen years after the fact, especially if he'd spent the intervening time trying to put the camel packer out of business.

And if the straw salesman hated camels with a passion I wouldn't expect him to get over it  just because he felt sorry about the one that died.>>
   
  Peg:
  But Snape has much more experience as the camel packer than as the the straw salesman.  I mean, here's a guy who's hated you from day one (and for no reason readily apparent to you,) treated you horribly inside and outside the classroom for six years, you just watched him murder your mentor in cold blood (at least from your perspective,) AND you found out he was the one who betrayed your parents to the enemy, leading to their deaths?  Yeah, even though he sold that last straw to someone else, he's also the one who loaded your back to the breaking point.  He's not the most directly responsible, but at this point, Harry hates him so much that obsessive anger seems the natural response.  JMO, of course!

Peg