[HPforGrownups] Re: Is Harry an idiot because he thinks Snape is guilty? Was: Why wizards are so i

[Sherry Gomes]

No: HPFGUIDX 140567

Pippin:
How do you think Harry is going to feel if he manages to get
Snape killed or punished, (or thinks he has) and then finds out that 
events on the tower were not what they seemed to be.  Do you think 
he's *not*  going to ask himself why he didn't notice the conflicting 
evidence before? Do you think he'd be proud of himself if he
realized he had let his hatred run away with him?

If he's going to be an Auror, I certainly hope he is not going to
make a habit of disregarding evidence just because it doesn't fit 
with his theory of the crime!  


Pippin



Sherry now:

Every time I vow to stay out of the never ending Snape debate, something
gets me back in the thick of it again.  I do not agree at all that Harry
didn't notice conflicting evidence.  Harry saw what he saw.  Anyone who'd
been there, in the absolute fear and worry and danger would have believed
what Harry believed.  I believe it, and I'm not an idiot.  Harry has only
ever seen one AK, that we know of, on a spider.  I don't consider that much
evidence to support the idea that the curse didn't look like an AK.  If, JKR
forbid, it turns out that Snape isn't a bad guy, then the one way I hope
Harry has matured is to learn not to blame himself for every single thing
wrong in his world and to be able to accept that he made the best judgment
of the circumstances he could, considering what he saw.  He *saw* it happen.
What on earth is he supposed to think?  But oh, for the sake of proving
Harry right, if nothing else, I am hoping that Snape is as evil as Saruman
in the LOTR series!  I'll dance for joy if he is.

Sherry