On the perfection of moral virtues

[phoenixgod2000]

No: HPFGUIDX 168857

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "leslie41" <leslie41 at ...> wrote:

> 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.

I think that won't be satisfying for a lot of readers.  While
forgiveness is all well and good in the real world, forgiving someone
who doesn't acknowledge it or respond to it by someone who has
justifiable reasons to hate the other person won't be satisfying for
at least me.  

And I'm not talking about the teaching or the meanness or the ordinary
point taking.  Snape, lest anyone forget about it, was the spy that
told Voldemort the prophecy.  In a very real way, he got Harry's
parents killed. He may not have pulled the trigger, but he was the
informant. He was part of the process that left Harry an orphan at the
tender mercies of the Dursleys.

Harry would be justified in never forgiving Snape ever.  Hell, in my
book he would be justified in killing Snape with his bare hands (but
I'm a bloodthirsty type).  In the list of ways they have wronged each
other, Snape's scale is so overbalanced its just plain ridiculous.  

A lot of people seem to forget that.  Hell, in my least favorite
Dumbledore scene in HBP he forgets that.  I don't think I ever found
Dumbledore more unlikable than when he just shoves Harry's very real
angry and frustration under the rug.

Phoenixgod2000