Would Harry forgiving Snape be character growth for him? Re: CHAPDISC: HBP 29,

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 164172

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "quick_silver71" 
<quick_silver71 at ...> wrote:

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> 
> Quick_Silver:
> But doesn't that still make Snape into an object of semi-pity? 
Snape 
> would become the guy that never got over Hogwarts and what happened 
> to him there. How could Harry not treat that Snape with some 
> pity/bemusement/contempt? Totally speculating here but I think 
> that Snape still has the chance to move beyond the Marauders in 
form 
> of Harry. 
> 
> Quick_Silver
>

Which points to the reason Snapey-poo almost certainly has to bite 
the big one/kick the can/travel to that great Ministry in the 
sky/etc.  The entire character is oriented "backwards" so to speak, 
in that whatever alphabetical flavor you like with your Snapey-poo, 
he is as a character defined and motivated by the past.  Once the 
issues rooted in the past are resolved, what on Earth would he do?  
The entire purpose of his character would be complete, and he would 
then be in a world to which he had no real reference -- a world in 
which he does not belong.  For Snapey-poo, growth means resolution, 
and resolution means death.

So here's to hoping for plenty of growth to the reprehensible and 
indefensible, child-abusing twerp!


Lupinlore, who finds that idea vastly amusing as the justice in it is 
quite poetic