Snape and Harry again. Was: Re: Harry's potential father figures /Religion in HP

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Alla earlier:
...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 leastsomething 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!
 
Alla:
 
I am glad to hear that at least on this one we agree. :-)
 
 
Pippin: 
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.
<SNIP>

Alla:
 
And here my agreement ends. Firstly, I do expect fictional bad guys 
to get their dues exactly because in RL they don't always do.
Granted, one can argue that  the book will be more "real" if that 
won't happen just as it does not always happen in RL, but surely I 
can hope that it won't be so? :-) 
Another thing, I consider what Snape does to be a part of life, which 
you have to fight  against. Granted, one have to pick one's battles, 
but I disagree that RL Snapes should be allowed  to do what they 
want. ( by RL Snapes I don't mean strict teachers, by the way. I mean 
teachers who persecute their students for the sins of  their fathers, 
that is all)

 
Pippin:
It would be just to let Snape suffer as much emotional and physical
damage  as Harry has suffered, but it seems that he alreadyhas. 
 
Alla:
 
I'd like to see that, if he did. :-)
 

Pippin:
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?
  
 
 
Alla:
 
Pippin, I of course like Sirius very much, but I am not quite sure 
where you got the impression that I want Snape to be punished 
primarily for Sirius' death. :-)
 
Believe me, even though I think that Snape has some share of blame 
for  that, I consider Sirius' death to be  the result of the chain of 
numerous events, albeit sad one for me, so even if Sirius was alive, 
I would still think that there is plenty for what Snape deserves to 
suffer.


Just my opinion,
 
Alla.