okay this is coming from someone who completely reasonates with the way harry acts in ootp: his anger towards snape was largely because he had no one else to blame.
harry had every right to be mad. he had every right to act out every time he did, and anyone who calls him annoying or unreasonable really doesn’t understand that this is a fifteen year old boy, experiencing some beyond insane stuff, having faced voldemort himself, the strong as hell wizard who’s determined to kill him & has been trying to kill him ever since he was a newborn– and nobody believes him when he says he’s experiencing insane shit, everyone around him is telling him he’s a batshit crazy liar. his emotions & his behavior are completely reasonable. he’s even way too calm and way too graceful.
his godfather died. the only person he had who was his family, the person he would put his life to line for, has been killed by voldemort’s most devoted, most insane, follower. he is angry. he is angry and dumbledore (i’m not blaming dumbledore, i’m looking from harry’s pov) is seemingly so calm & nonchalant, while his entire world is breaking down. voldemort took over his body for a bit. dumbledore seems so emotionless, so care-free. harry breaks down.
harry has every right to be angry at everyone. at the whole world. but even when his anger tones down a bit, when his anger transforms more into grief & sadness, trying to search for sirius everywhere– he’s still super angry at snape. he blames snape for everything. he says he will never forgive snape; even though snape immediately informed the order after harry told him about sirius, and gave umbridge false veritaserum. he is mad at snape because he ceased giving him occlumency lessons– and he has every right to be. snape was beyond immature for that. i understand harry’s anger. if he had learned occlumency, sirius perhaps would never have to die that way. but harry’s anger is mostly directed at snape at the end of ootp, and he doesn’t trust him. he doesn’t trust him & even goes to think that snape wanted his mind to be more accessible to voldemort.
i don’t blame harry for any of his behaviors in ootp. but in the end, he places all his anger at the “mean teacher”. the person who was protecting him all along. kind of sad. but still reasonable.
