/What Harry "knows"

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No: HPFGUIDX 169819

Magpie:
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> This version is basically the non-revelatory one, where Snape just 
> has to speechify about why he was bad all along--nobody 
appreciating 
> him, everyone else sucks, he never loved anyone because nobody 
loved 
> him, etc. Harry doesn't need to learn anything about Snape, 
exactly, 
> Snape's just there for Harry to pull himself up and pity and say: 
> You are a pitiful man, and I am above you. Which is a tiny change 
> from now in that now he thinks if he meets him along the way he'll 
> kill him, but more of a development rather than a change. 
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Alla:

Um, how is it a tiny change if Harry will go from hating Snape to 
forgiving him? And I think it will be much more difficult for Harry 
to forgive Snape knowing that he is evil or OFH or whoever as long as 
he, you know, did not kill Dumbledore on Dumbledore's orders.

I mean if Snape is DD!M, sure Harry will go through reevaluation of 
his views, but if Snape is not completely DD!M, but at least a little 
bit grey in a sense that responsibility for murder is his and his 
only, but the motivations are something that Harry will be able to 
understand, I think it will be difficult for Harry to forgive Snape, 
but he will still do it.

JMO,

Alla