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

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "horridporrid03"
<horridporrid03 at y...> wrote:
o, 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?

That's exactly what I mean, and what I miss. He is fifteen years old
after all, old enough to know right from wrong apart from his feelings
for the person he wronged. 
> 
> 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.

I don't expect anything from Snape. Bodily he's an adult, but adult
behaviour is not something he seems te be good at in a lot of cases,
socially he is an invalid, there's something broken there which may
never heal. Harry however, is supposed to be a normal human being, who
is capable of learning and growing. I would love Snape to be able to
make such a huge leap in his development, but I don't really believe it. 

Gerry