Snape's Character Growth / Would Harry forgiving Snape be character growth...

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 164186

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "horridporrid03" 
<horridporrid03 at ...> wrote:
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> 
> Betsy Hp:
> Eureka!  Thank you all for that insight (talk about great minds 
> <g>).  That is much more Dumbledore's thing: mercy, not blanket 
> forgiveness.  Dumbledore doesn't have the power to forgive someone 
> all of their past wrongs.  But he does have the ability to mercifully 
> allow someone a chance to do better, to make a better choice.
> 
> And this is a lesson I can see Harry learning as part of his 
> character growth.  

Errmmm .... yeah, possibly.  If mercy is tied to justice.  Which 
involves Snapey-poo acknowledging his wrongs, including his 
reprehensible abuse of Harry and Neville, and humbly and sincerely 
asking for forgiveness.  Otherwise, it amounts to an approval of the 
abuse of children, which leaves the books as contemptible mulch fodder.

Actually, I doubt he will, which is why its just as well my yard will 
need plenty of mulch this season.  


Lupinlore, who never has understood all the fascination with the 
outworn tropes of the hero's journey that JKR so slavishly, and 
sometimes contemptibly, follows