Coward Harry, Coward Snape...

[Lyn J. Mangiameli]

or how Harry gets a taste of what it is like to be Snape.

Harry may be the only one other than LV who knows the whole story of the Horcruxes. To 
that extent, it means that only he knows he cannot try to kill LV until all the HX's are 
destroyed. So is it not likely that a point will come in 7 when the "chosen one" will have an 
opportunity to fight LV, in public view, and he will have to back down, indeed perhaps run 
away--for reasons only he will understand.  And isn't it likely that will lead to Harry being 
branded a coward, perhaps even by many closest to him.

Perhaps too, maybe Snape also knows about the HX's, and will be the only one to 
understand the true motivation for Harry's actions, and their prudence in the overall 
context of the mission. If so, will he find it delightfully ironic, or might he in a glimmer of 
humanity, have a moment of empathy for Harry, not unlike how he perhaps did when he 
learned of Harry being abused as a child.   

And might it turn out that at some point Harry will be able to understand Snape, for the 
first time, because of his own experience of having to hide his true mission, and suffering 
the derision of others while in the act of doing what is right rather that what will achieve 
immediate public acclaim.

I suspect so.