Snape / Harry & Temptation / Healing (was:Re: CHAPDISC: HBP24, Sectumsempra

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> > Betsy Hp:
> > Oh yes, Snape and Harry are so incredibly much alike. 
> > <snip>
> > Ooh, and here's an interesting thought...  I wonder if the      
> > reason Harry doesn't go much for temptation scenes is because   
> > *Snape* has already gone through them for him.  Could their     
> > connection be that deep?  (I can certainly buy it, but I'm      
> > betting Alla's choking on something right now. And Lupinlore's   
> > firing up the old mulcher. <eg>)
> > <SNIP>

> >>Alla:
> Before I go to splash some cold water on my face, I just want to  
> be sure how much water I should prepare to bring myself to the    
> working condition again.

Betsy Hp:
Niagra Falls, baby. <BG>

> >>Alla:
> <snip>
> No seriously, while I disagree with general idea that Harry and   
> Snape are *that** much alike, etc ( for example I think that      
> saying that Harry and Snape hatreds are very alike is just        
> justification of Snape starting the bullying campaign of eleven   
> year old and then being surprised that this eleven year old is    
> indeed developing hatred of that teacher), I can certainly see the 
> similarities between them ( in general), but what does it mean    
> that Snape already went through temptations for him?
> You mean Harry's subconscious knows it and can proceed freely     
> without temptations now?
> I mean, I am sort of seriously interested.

Betsy Hp:
I don't think Harry is a sort of Mini-Snape, no.  And I'm not trying 
to justify Snape's opening salvo in their on-going war.  

[Though I do think the *reason* things went so far in their first 
scene in PS/SS is because, like Snape would have before him, Harry 
refused to bend.  And Snape, not wanting to bend himself (for 
various reasons), got caught up in a game of chicken that is still 
going on.  I do put the lion's share of the blame on Snape, because 
he is the adult.  He chose to start the confrontation and he should 
have been mature enough to figure a way out of it. But I also think 
there's a similarity of personality that doomed that meeting to 
failure.] 

What I do think is that in some ways young!Snape is Harry without 
Harry's advantages.  The Slytherin side of Harry, maybe?  So just as 
the Slytherins tend to be the sin-eaters of Potterverse, I wonder if 
by taking the journey Snape has, the journey fraught with 
temptation, he's saved Harry having to make a similar trip.

I think this goes towards the Potter books as a "child healer" type 
of story.  Harry is there to heal the rift in Hogwarts (and 
therefore the WW), and I'm wondering if Snape has maybe done some 
foundation work for him.  Snape has cleaned out the poison of the 
Voldemort temptation so Harry can get on with the healing.

Does this make sense?  (Where's Sydney when I need her? <g>)

Betsy Hp (not thrilled with the subject line - but can't think of a 
better title...)