/What Harry "knows"/Draco's Birthday

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 169838

> > Alla:
> > 
> > Um, how is it a tiny change if Harry will go from hating Snape to 
> > forgiving him? <SNIP> 
Magpie:
> Because ESE!Snape is toast. So Harry says "I'm better than you" and 
> then Snape is either killed or in Azkaban. What else can Harry do? 
> The only alternative is that he stews about him for his entire 
life, 
> which Harry isn't going to do regardless. If Snape is DDM he's 
> already grey--he *did* get Harry's parents killed and everything 
> else. He just makes himself more difficult because he can't just be 
> slotted into the bad guy spot and dealt with that way. It's nice 
for 
> Harry if he can decide that rather than not forgiving Snape he can 
> forgive him, but if Snape's on the bad side I don't think that will 
> amount to much, practically speaking. Harry will still be able to 
> fight against him tooth and nail and not rest until he's dead or in 
> prison.
> <SNIP>

Alla:

I do not think I understand. I am not even talking about completely 
ESE Snape here, I think, but about the one that is Greyer than DD!M. 
And I want to ask again, I guess. How is it forgiving a man, who 
let's say committed a murder because he thought he had no other way 
to help the good guys, but *without DD asking him to** does not 
amounts to much?

Harry will still think that Snape murdered his mentor, but Harry will 
be able to identify with Snape's reasoning, MAYBE, that he felt 
helpless, trapped, maybe Snape indeed saw that there was no hope for 
DD to live, but DD himself still thought that there is hope.

You do not think it will be **huge** thing for Harry to forgive this 
Snape?

Keep in mind, for the purpose of this I am talking about **any** 
Snape, who killed DD of his own initiative, for whatever reason.

Alla.