Harry's potential father figures /Religion in HP

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 131089

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214"
<dumbledore11214 at y...> 
wrote:
 
> I do NOT mind Harry being a better person and treating Snape better 
> than he treated the boy all these years, but my basic sense of 
> fairness as reader will rebel if I will read about forgiveness
first, 
> without Snape getting his due (it could be in the metaphorical
sense, 
> it could be not necessarily from Harry - another Snape as boggart 
> scene or something like that for example will work perfectly to me.
:-
> )) first.
> 
> SO, to answer your question, I don't think that it would make Harry 
> more powerful if he makes Snape suffer, BUT I do think it will be 
> unfair ( IMO as a reader) if Snape will not suffer at least
something 
> for all he did.

Pippin:
It would be namby-pamby if Harry forgave Snape because he
thought that's what good little boys do. Yuck!

But if Harry cannot get past being humiliated   until Snape
acknowledges that he was wrong to do it, then Harry is going to
have a rather tedious Snape-like life, even if Snape complies.
There are always going to be people who are less than 
impressed with the  importance of Mr. H. Potter, after all.

I would rather have Harry understand that criticism
you don't deserve is part of life just as  praise you
don't deserve is, and not an occasion for revenge.

It would be just to let Snape suffer as much emotional and physical
damage  as Harry has suffered, but it seems that he already
has. And if Snape is to suffer for Sirius's death, it would only be
fair  to have  retribution light on Harry and Dumbledore as well...
oh and  let's not forget Bella or whoever really killed Sirius
...and Voldemort. 

But that's a lot of punishment to exact for one death, isn't it?

Pippin