[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape and the "Chosen One" Was: Nice vs. Good - Compassion

[catherine higgins]

No: HPFGUIDX 153534



lupinlore <rdoliver30 at yahoo.com> wrote:    But how do you expect things to end?  What do you think would be 
appropriate?  Surely you don't think that the Dursleys, Umbridge, and 
Snape can go unpunished for their reprehensible crimes against Harry 
and the series will still have a moral leg to stand on?

Catherine:
  I expect Umbridge to get sort of just desserts, but I don't think it will include any moment of cathartic revelation on her part. Somehing bad will happen to her, and she'll probably think "why me?". 
   
  Something will also happen to the Dursley's, I expect, as Dudley's dementor vision is revealed. I also think that Petunia will be a lot more important to the plot than she has been. I get the feeling that she has been receiving and stashing letters from DD to give to Harry on his 17th birthday. She *personally* has received "letters" from DD (because of the "Remember my last" howler in OotP). And the fact that she knew about Dementors and all....she's way more in the loop then she lets on.
   
  As for Snape, well, who really knows. That could go so many ways. I really believe Snape is a nasty and horible person. I think, no matter who's side he's playing for in the end, that he is a deeply disturbed person. However, I feel that his treatment of Harry is far less reprehensible than the Dursley's or Umbridge's. I see it through "Harry-glasses". Harry feels ashamed of the quill detentions. He doesn't even mention them to Ron or Hermione at first. That shame, in my eyes, makes me feel that Harry is being abused, and that *Harry* thinks he's being abused. Harry is always *angry* after any exchange with Snape. He feels that Snape is "unfair", but he never feels shame following a Snape detention. Snape, in my eyes, is more of an instigator. He tries to get under people's skin, tries to provoke them, because he can. It does give him the feeling of power ofver someone to be able to provoke them. But I don't see it as abusive. More childish, as if he never really grew up. 
   
  This brings me a bit to "Snape's Worst Memory" and the prank. It seems to me that both Sirius and Snape never really grew up following those moments in time. They never matured. Sirius because he was in prison for all of his early adult life, so how can one possibly mature normally? Snape just never got over something (the memory, the prank) and he's in an emotional rut. Snape is still *emotionally* around 16-18. 
   
  You can feel any which way about Snape you want, but I think you're setting yourself up for dissappointment and a huge waste of time and money if the only thing that would please you is for Snape to say "Harry (and Neville), I am deeply sorry for all the emotional termoil that I have caused you! I totally renounce my abusive ways. Please forgive me!" Because that's just never going to happen.
   
  Catherine

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