An Understanding between Harry and Snape

[willsonteam]

No: HPFGUIDX 190731

Not too long ago--May, June--someone said in a post that they wished Snape and Harry had experienced resolution or an understanding. I can't find the post, don't have the exact words. I'm sorry, ever since then I've pictured Snape treating Harry to an ice cream cone.  Not a pretty picture. (Although a line in one the books about something being as likely as Snape adopting Harry lead to a ton of Snape Adopts Harry fanfics.I'm sure there was ice cream.)

I would have liked to see some sort of understanding between Harry and Snape if only because it would have required Snape to live a while longer. We don't get a hand shake at the end of the battle, or a nod at the train station. We know of course that Harry came to some sort of appreciation of Snape or understanding of an aspect of Snape's character. I'm not sure what Snape thought of Harry at the end. We know he wasn't pleased at DD's plan to protect Harry until it was time for Harry to be sacrificed. Yet JKR says Snape never came to like Harry.
 
We do get Snape's last request of Harry, to "look at me." Harry's last moment with Snape ends just like  his first contact with the professor-- looking eye to eye. It's a sort of resolution, a closure. This time, instead of a sharp pain, Harry would have a collection of memories. And that's better than an ice cream cone! 

Potioncat