Snape the Arch-enemy (was Re: DD's dilemma + owl post)

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 126533


Pippin:
> Jen, you've made me see Lupinlore's objections to JKR's 
> portrayal of Dumbledore in an entirely new light. 
<SNIP> ...Harry ought to -- that 
> he has cause for bitter resentment against Dumbledore above 
> and beyond the faults that Dumbledore has acknowledged, and 
> that if Dumbledore won't admit it, then what passes for good in 
> the Wizarding World isn't really worth saving.

Yes, Harry certainly does have a right to feel the way you describe,
but I suspect things will be quite a bit more complicated than that. 
I would not be surprised for Harry in HBP to be very withdrawn,
depressed, and secretive, plagued by doubts, fears, guilt, hatred, and
resentment.  If OOTP was the story of no one communicating with Harry,
I wonder if HBP will be the reverse, the story of Harry communicating
with no one.  Add the pressures of a war, and you have the makings of
a deep and persistant problem for Dumbledore, the Order, and Harry's
friends.  I rather doubt we will see Harry shouting at Dumbledore
again.  I wouldn't be surprised, however, if we see something worse --
a cold, somewhat mean and sarcastic Harry who is beginning to show
altogether too many Snapish qualities for the Headmaster's comfort. 
We saw the beginnings of such, perhaps, in Harry's confrontation with
Draco/Snape at the end of OOTP.

I have sometimes theorized that in a way Snape is really Harry's
arch-enemy, not Voldemort.  I don't mean that Snape is LITERALLY
Harry's arch-enemy, but rather that he symbolizes a much greater
danger because of the psychological trap he embodies.  I don't see any
danger of Harry ever turning into another Voldemort.  I think turning
into another Snape is a more realistic possibility.  That won't
happen, I'm sure, but I think we may see Harry teetering on that
precipice from time to time in HBP.  And that will represent a more
complicated challenge for Harry's friends than any simple resentment
toward Dumbledore or hatred for Snape, no matter how powerful those
emotions might be.

Lupinlore