On the perfection of moral virtues.

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 168826

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at ...> wrote:

> 
> Pippin:
> But why can't it be both? Look at Harry, he's cool, noble and brave,
> *and* he needs to be pitied and forgiven.

Hmmm.  Pitied and forgiven for what?  I'm not terribly sure I follow 
the reasoning.  Perhaps Harry needs to forgive himself due to various 
things, but from whom else does he need forgiveness?  Draco?  I think 
that's rather like the horse thief forgiving the posse.  Marietta?  
Ditto, and that's more of a Hermione issue, anyway.  Cho?  Snort, 
chuckle, laugh. The Dursleys? Double snort, chuckle, laugh.  Snape? 
ROTFLMAO!


 While a great
> number of  things that  Snape might be pitied and forgiven
> for have contributed disproportionately to Harry's distress,
> the good that DDM!Snape has done is spread around. But that
> means it would be all the more noble of Harry to recognize it.
> 

Or, perhaps, it might be insipid and preaching to the point of nausea, 
not to mention constituting approval of abusive behavior.  Now, I think 
there are ways that such a storyline might be handled.  But a "you were 
DDM! and all is forgiven no apologies necessary because I now 
understand that nice is not the same as good?"  Well, then, I think, it 
would be time to feed the book into the old woodchipper and good 
riddance to it.


Lupinlore