[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape and Harry

[Sherry Gomes]

No: HPFGUIDX 188929

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.

Nikkalmati

I think it would have made sense at that point in the story for Harry to
have done something to apologise for his behavior and to indicate he was
ashamed of his father's.  This is one of the unresolved conflicts that JKR
left hanging.  (I mentioned earlier that we are not privileged to see how
Snape resolved the conflict between his promise to protect Harry and the
reason DD asked him to make that promise.)  Here we dont see how Harry
resolves the shock of seeing his father behave as a bully with his previous
view of his father as a popular and talented hero.  He even questions how
his mother could have married James and speculates that maybe James gave her
a potion.



Sherry now:

I disagree that Harry owed Snape an apology for his father's actions.  The
only apology he owed him, in that worst memory instance, was the one for
looking at the memories in the first place.  Nobody owes another person an
apology for the actions of another person, in my opinion.  And if we were to
assume that Harry did indeed owe Snape such an apology--something with which
I do not agree--then why doesn't Snape, the adult in this relationship, owe
Harry an apology for bullying James right back, or more importantly, why
doesn't Snape owe Harry one big apology for treating him, Harry, so
horribly.  But my basic point is that I don't agree that Harry should have
to apologize for his father's actions, or for the actions of any other
person.  He's only responsible for his own actions.

Sherry