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

[horridporrid03]

No: HPFGUIDX 122296


>>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.<

Betsy:
I think though, that Gerry's point is that it's the *attempt* to 
apologize that would show character.  Apologizing to your friends or 
a person you know will quickly forgive you is relatively easy.  
Apologizing to someone you're not too keen on and who may not even 
accept the apology is the real test.

Also, Gerry is asking for Harry to just *think* about it, just 
consider whether he should make the attempt.  I agree that Snape 
would probably be fairly nasty (if he even gave Harry a chance to 
speak), but the fact that Harry didn't make the attempt, didn't even 
*consider* making the attempt, shows that Harry still has some 
growing to do himself.  Does Harry even realize that he was wrong to 
snoop?

The healing between Snape and Harry may very well need to start from 
Snape's end.  Snape is the adult after all, and I think Snape is the 
one who started their relationship off wrong in the first place.  
But Harry needs to do some changing too.

Betsy