I'd like to hope there will be a better understanding between Harry and Snape too, but I really can't see it going too deep. I could be wrong, though, and I'd be happy to be wrong.
I quite agree about Snape's pettiness -- even if you think that he's picking on Harry to show off for Draco (and thus Lucius as well), there's too much evidence that he's genuinely enjoying it. He does, as JKR says, abuse his power and there is a real element of sadism (though not, I think, in the true sense of the word) involved. And in such cases, he is unequivocally in the wrong. No matter what his reasons may be, no matter how logical his arguments in his own defense (assuming he could be persuaded to make them -- which he wouldn't), that kind of behaviour is not justified. Even when Harry is genuinely being a prat for the sake of being a prat, which happens a lot more rarely (even with Snape) than some pro-Snape and/or anti-Harry readers seem to think.
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Date: 2004-08-10 09:26 am (UTC)I quite agree about Snape's pettiness -- even if you think that he's picking on Harry to show off for Draco (and thus Lucius as well), there's too much evidence that he's genuinely enjoying it. He does, as JKR says, abuse his power and there is a real element of sadism (though not, I think, in the true sense of the word) involved. And in such cases, he is unequivocally in the wrong. No matter what his reasons may be, no matter how logical his arguments in his own defense (assuming he could be persuaded to make them -- which he wouldn't), that kind of behaviour is not justified. Even when Harry is genuinely being a prat for the sake of being a prat, which happens a lot more rarely (even with Snape) than some pro-Snape and/or anti-Harry readers seem to think.