Great post, I totally agree. I think his shock is due to an inability to see Snape or Draco as victims; usually they are the perpetrators victimizing him. In Snape's case, his shock was twofold because he was also seeing his dad and Sirius as the perps. The ramifications there and the distance of many years from the event, would have somewhat superseded the mind-blowingness of realizing Snape was the victim.
Witnessing Draco in absolute despair (and knowing from Myrtle that it isn't a lone incident), his shock is absolute; nothing mitigates it. Besides the crying, he hears that Voldemort has threatened Draco and his family with death. They are victims! And they can like...cry and stuff? Whoa! What universe is this? I think for Harry it must have been something like opening a door and entering another dimension.
And then, as you say, he becomes the perp with his spell gone wrong. Then Snape, rightly, points out Harry has done Dark magic and also, cheated! It's really no wonder to me that he doesn't want to ponder it. It was the day Harry Potter went to Bizarro land, LOL.
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Date: 2006-12-08 07:29 am (UTC)Witnessing Draco in absolute despair (and knowing from Myrtle that it isn't a lone incident), his shock is absolute; nothing mitigates it. Besides the crying, he hears that Voldemort has threatened Draco and his family with death. They are victims! And they can like...cry and stuff? Whoa! What universe is this? I think for Harry it must have been something like opening a door and entering another dimension.
And then, as you say, he becomes the perp with his spell gone wrong. Then Snape, rightly, points out Harry has done Dark magic and also, cheated! It's really no wonder to me that he doesn't want to ponder it. It was the day Harry Potter went to Bizarro land, LOL.