On the perfection of moral virtues

leslie41 leslie41 at yahoo.com
Thu May 17 01:59:20 UTC 2007


No: HPFGUIDX 168854

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, juli17 at ... wrote:

> What I figure may happen is not mutual apologies but mutual 
> acknowledgements. For instance, "Apparently you're not an exact
> carbon copy of your father, Potter. There is much of your mother
> in you." Or, "I suppose Dumbledore was right to trust you, Snape."
> In other words, reluctant acknowledgement that they now see and
> accept the truth about each other. That they aren't Harry the
> carbon copy of James and Snape the evil DE murderer that each
> was determined to see through their preconceptions and biases.
>  

What I think may be more realistic is Harry recognizing Snape's worth 
but Snape refusing to recognize Harry's.  Harry is a far more 
emotionally evolved person than Snape is.

Snape is still nursing old grudges and old hurts from twenty years 
previous, committed by men who are now dead.  I don't think he's 
capable of evolving past that, at least with regard to Harry.  

I don't think Snape will be "punished" by Rowling or anyone else 
because I think it's far more effective to show that the worst 
punishment for Severus Snape is remaining Severus Snape.  





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