Christian Forgiveness and Snape (was Would Harry forgiving )

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 164397

> Magpie:
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> At times, yes. It is self-serving--effectively so. Simply telling 
> Harry that he cares about him and was ignoring him this year out of 
> a misguided idea that that was best is not the thing that makes him 
> sound self-serving to me. I couldn't quarrel with the author for 
> making DD care about Harry more than Sirius or Snape do, because I 
> don't think he does care more about him than Sirius does. Or 
perhaps 
> even more than Snape does, in his reluctant, angry way, even if 
> Snape's "caring" is mostly hating. If this scene was supposed to 
> make me feel impressed by Dumbledore's caring about Harry, it 
failed 
> (for me and for many other people).   

Alla:

Yes, yes, yes. Sometimes I am thinking whether JKR truly meant for us 
to be impressed by Dumbledore's single tear at the end of his speech, 
sigh, or just laugh at it. Because when I read it I either want to 
laugh or slap him. But I am thinking that was meant to be sentimental 
moment indeed. Nah, felt flat for me as well, **really** flat.

Simple *I am sorry for your loss*, even something similar to what he 
said to Harry in HBP about Sirius would have even worked better for 
me.


  
> Magpie:
> And for some reason felt the need to remind us of the dangers of 
too 
> much attention here, even though nobody in the room that we can see 
> is suffering from it (and in fact it seems like everyone he's 
> talking about in the scene suffered from the opposite).

Alla:

LOLOLOL.

Precisely.