Just had to give a big cheer for this section... They also, I think, sometimes ignore the obstacles another person has if they don’t share them. It’s always easy to avoid someone else’s vices and hard to understand why something that doesn’t seem like a big deal to you is a big deal to someone else.
It took me a long time to figure out why I was so much more willing to accept Snape's bad points than Sirius'. It finally boiled down to the fact that I had the background to understand someone feeling isolated from peers at school while I don't have the experiences necessary to fully comprehend what it means to have an unhappy homelife. I'm not able to "fill in the blanks" on my own in the same way with Sirius as with Snape. I can only *imagine* in a vague sort of way what it must be like to dread going home. I can *remember* what it is like to try and avoid certain people in class and all the emotions that went with it.
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Date: 2006-05-31 03:39 pm (UTC)Just had to give a big cheer for this section...
They also, I think, sometimes ignore the obstacles another person has if they don’t share them. It’s always easy to avoid someone else’s vices and hard to understand why something that doesn’t seem like a big deal to you is a big deal to someone else.
It took me a long time to figure out why I was so much more willing to accept Snape's bad points than Sirius'. It finally boiled down to the fact that I had the background to understand someone feeling isolated from peers at school while I don't have the experiences necessary to fully comprehend what it means to have an unhappy homelife. I'm not able to "fill in the blanks" on my own in the same way with Sirius as with Snape. I can only *imagine* in a vague sort of way what it must be like to dread going home. I can *remember* what it is like to try and avoid certain people in class and all the emotions that went with it.