Harry's anger (was Re: Draco's anger.)

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 122257


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "festuco" <vuurdame at x> wrote:

Gerry:
> What really, really bothers me in Harry
> is that he never, ever, even considers going back to Snape to
> apologize. He feels sorry for young Snape, is disillusioned about 
his
> dad, but nowhere we see that he feels remorse or even guilt about
> violating another persons privacy on purpose. Going back after a few
> days to say he was terribly wrong really would have shown character.
> But he prefers being ignored in potions class, the easy way out. 

Geoff:
I tried to find a reply I wrote on this very matter months ago when 
the topic cropped up previously but I'll have to say roughly the same 
thing again.

Is Harry /really/ going to risk going back to Snape even to try to 
apologise? Is he going to risk the sneering, humiliation, sarcasm and 
unfairness which has been directed at him for the previous four and a 
half years or so?

Can you see Snape smiling and clapping Harry on the shoulder and 
saying "Thanks, Potter, I appreciate that"? He has got too many 
hangups of his own to be able to handle it in a way which would heal 
the breach between them. I believe that if there is going to be any 
sort of rapprochment between them, it will have to start from Snape's 
end.