My HBP Review

[Barry Arrowsmith]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "fhmaneely" <fmaneely at b...> wrote:

IF SPACE
IS A
VACUUM,
HOW 
COME WE 
AREN'T 
SUCKED
UPWARDS?
> 
> Ironically Harry thinks the HBP is not a bad person and HBP turns out 
> to be Snape.... Think this may be a clue to Harry finally accepting 
> Snape?  
> 

This is one of the 'revelations' that I'm not too comfortable with.
Harry believes it; not sure I do. Seems somewhat more than a little
contrived.  OK, Jo can get a bit clunky  sometimes, but this, it's
Aggie Christie at her most irritating -  if it's true.

Not the first time that Harry has had to change his estimation of
others, it  happens with almost metronomic regularity - Quirrell,
Snape, the Diary, Sirius, Snape, Crouch!Moody, Snape, Dung and
of course Snape. Once more with feeling, Harry! You should be 
used to it by now.

But Harry has always looked for reasons to justify his instinctive
antipathy to Sevvy - and Sevvy has always co-operated by giving 
him plenty of the justification Harry wants. This time it's different,
Snape could always treat Harry's opinions with contempt, dismiss
them as irrelevant, because he knew he'd be backed up by DD. Not
this time. This time Harry is left with just his own very emotional
responses, there is no authority figure telling him he's mistaken.

Yep.Harry's gunning (wanding?) for Sevvy.
This is gonna be interesting.

Kneasy