Snape and Harry

[nikkalmati]

No: HPFGUIDX 188932



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Sherry Gomes" <sherriola at ...> wrote:
>
> 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
>
Nikkalmati