Victory for TEWWW EWWW?? Snape the hero

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 174231

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Dennis Grant" <trog at ...> 
wrote:
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> Harry - without realizing it, and unintentionally - provokes Snape
> beyond all human endurance. No wonder he's a bit snippy!
> 
> Snape's path to redemption is a path of extreme loneliness, 
isolation,
> and pain, but he stays the course right up to the end and pays the
> ultimate price. It can, I think, be forgiven if some of that pain
> leaked out along the way.


Alla:

Yes, indeed, how dare Harry. I mean, he **looks** like James, so how 
can Snape NOT be  snippy at him? ( I usually use much stronger 
objectives than snippy, but I will go with snippy for the purpose of 
this post).


I understand that you said "unintentionally", but I nevertheless 
take an exception to the phrase "provokes Snape beyond human 
endurance". Harry IMO does no such a thing. Harry does not know 
Snape. Harry does not know that **Snape** contributed to the 
greatest tragedy of his life - being marked and growing up an orphan.

IMO Snape **chooses** to be provoked by how innocent kid looks and I 
say - shame on Snape.

Harry wants to study potions, Snape seems intend to hate him from 
the moment Harry shows up. From their very first lesson IMO. There 
is no way Snape can figure out the **attitudes** of eleven year old, 
whom he never met before IMO.

And it is a very sympathetic phrasing of course "some of that pain 
leaks along the way". I will phrase it differently - Snape hates the 
boy, whose mother he loved and whose mother and father he 
contributed to untimely demise.

Can it be forgiven? Sure it can be. Harry did. But that to me makes 
Harry even more Christ like figure, since I wiew what Snape did in 
much harsher terms than "some pain leaks along the way".

JMO,

Alla