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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