Sirius and Prank again? Fools Rush in where Wisemen Fear to Go

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 129937


> There is a difference between "not without guilt" and "greater share 
> of guilt". You say that Snape is to blame because he acted on his 
> own free will, according to his own choices, based on the 
> information he'd got and breaking school rules and security measures 
> in the process. But that's exactly what Harry Potter has been doing 
> since his year one. Would you say that he bears "the greater share 
> of guilt" that Voldermort for his near brushes with death? I suspect 
> you would not, but where is the difference? The way I see it the 
> only difference is that Harry is nice and good, while Snape is a 
> horrid slimeball. 
> 
> a_svirn


Valky:
Another difference I see is that Harry is not carrying on like a royal
prat about others putting him in danger, he accepts his blame and yes
when he seeks out Voldemort I think I recognises that his share of
guilt is greater. I think OOtP is a big testamnet to this about Harry,
notice that he is worried about the danger he put his friends in, it
doesn't really cross his mind at all to blame anyone for his own life
being threatened, he is quite resolute about that. Yes he blames Snape
for Sirius' death, but that is on a different level, and in any case
at this stage its just a salve of denial for a fresh wound so it means
hardly a thing in comparison to Snapes carry on.

I think that an important thing to remember is that Dumbledore
probably handled Severus after the prank in the same way he handled
Harry after OOtP, (ie telling him that the responsibility for action
lies with the person who did it ultimately). Consider Snape in the
shoes of Harry when DD tells him that Sirius death was a consequence
of Sirius' own choices, imagine Snape being told the same thing about
himself. All these 20 years later he still hasn't accepted that, what
if in just a few weeks Harry does? He probably will and that is a fact
which is the biggest difference between Snape and Harry.