Snape and Harry

[montavilla47]

No: HPFGUIDX 188903

Danielle:
> My biggest disappointment with the entire series was that there was not a scene in the 5th book when Harry apologized to Snape for how his father had treated him.  I was waiting for it after Harry witnessed the Levicorpus moment and James' humiliation of Snape.  Maybe because I read the books alongside my then-8-year-old son, I was very sensitive to the dynamics among the schoolboys.  I felt as though JKR made it very clear that even though Harry physically resembled James, personality wise he was much more like Lily.  I was glad at the end of DH that Harry had recognized Snape's bravery and decency, but I would have liked to have seen a moment between the two of them when Snape was alive, even though I'm sure Harry would have been bumbling and unable to articulate what he was trying to say, and Snape would have been sneering and dismissive, but deep down they would have shared a level of understanding.
> 

Montavilla47:
I know what you mean.  I don't think Harry can or should
apologize for what his father and friends did.  He's *not*
his father and he shouldn't have be responsible for his 
father's behavior.  

But Harry could apologize for his own behavior, when he 
invaded Snape's privacy by looking in the Pensieve.  

Whew.  I don't think that would have gone well for Harry,
though!  

But it's something that never really feels resolved to me,
even if Harry honors Snape with his second child's 
second name.  Both characters need to process their
mutual antagonism for the relationship to ever feel
resolved.  Maybe they did.  But if so, it all happened
in the cracks between what we see in the book.