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I can't seem to take my mind off this theory... Here's several other examples I thought would fit your pattern.
Barty Crouch Jr. disguised as Moody. Sends Harry to Voldemort to be hurt and worse, and gets demented (against the good guys' wishes) by the Ministry people.
Barty's revenge on his father, OTOH, for cruelly incarcerating his own son, gets narratively condemned *and* directly punished, as this whole crime of his eventually gets brought to light and accounted for.
Voldemort also hated his father for leaving him (and for leaving his mother to die, which caused him to grow up in a Muggle orphanage). He murders him by his own hands, which is described as the abominable sin that started the whole process of this monster turning into a literal monster (split-soul).
When Draco gets punished, all the other innocent people he's hurt (Neville who got bullied all the time, Hermione who got called mudblood, Katy who got cursed by his necklace, Ron who got poisoned, etc.) also get their revenge. We see clearly that none of these individuals have a hand in his punishment. Neville doesn't even encounter him in DH.
Neville also doesn't encounter Snape, his worst terror and verbal tormentor through all those years, during the final fight in DH. He did form a resistance against him, but those kids never physically attacked him that we know of, and nothing they did actually hurt Snape's feelings (as he was on their side; he only ever got agitated, worrying about the kids' own fates). The only time they tried to do something *to* Snape, something that could have actually hurt him, was when they tried to steal the Gryffindor Sword and that attempt was unsuccessful. When Snape gets attacked by first McGonnagal and then Voldemort, Neville isn't even there, his hands as clean as those of Harry, who mutely watches without aiding either side. All Neville ever does about Snape is magnanimously (though unwittingly) kill the snake that bit him to death.
Mundungus Fletcher. Stole Sirius' possessions (now Harry's) and sold them, to Harry's rage, in HBP. Harry confronts him and tries to make him stop, physically attacking him in the process (Hermione screams "Harry, no!"), but this leads nowhere as Fletcher defeats him and escapes. Then when Harry has him captured by Kreacher in DH, he magnanimously refrains from lifting a finger to hurt him, detachedly disarming him and interrogating him about the locket. Kreacher meanwhile is genetically driven to defend his master, the Black family, and bangs him over his head with a saucepan to general amusement.
A huge blond Death Eater was seen causing "the most damage" to the good guys near the end of HBP. He also dueled Hagrid and tried to burn his dog alive. The trio encounter the same blond guy in DH and Harry stuns him unconscious.
Dean was seeing Ginny in HBP, when Harry really wanted her for his own girlfriend. Despite this, the magnanimous Harry doesn't lift a finger to hurt him, nor is he ever mean to him, naturally. In DH we find Dean persecuted for his perceived blood status, hunted from society and on the run in the wilderness. Then Harry finds him captive in the Malfoy Manor, and generously frees him in the course of freeing himself.
Pettigrew tries to kill Harry and Ron; his own life-debted hand chokes him to death, carrying out the punishment of Voldemort. Harry and Ron forgivingly try to save him, but of course he suffers and dies. Obviously, Harry couldn't have been anything *but* kind to him, unlike to the Carrows, seeing as Pettigrew is also the betrayer of his parents. Right? Er, right...
800-word prologue: James and Sirius aren't attacking the Death Eaters coming after them to hurt them; they're just running away at top speed, showing off how cool they are on the amazing flying motorbike. They talk insultingly to the Muggle policemen who never did anything to hurt them, and damage their property (FLUMP - BANG - CRUNCH) scaring them out of their pants. The bad guys come crashing into said Muggle property and get what they deserve.
Barty Crouch Jr. disguised as Moody. Sends Harry to Voldemort to be hurt and worse, and gets demented (against the good guys' wishes) by the Ministry people.
Barty's revenge on his father, OTOH, for cruelly incarcerating his own son, gets narratively condemned *and* directly punished, as this whole crime of his eventually gets brought to light and accounted for.
Voldemort also hated his father for leaving him (and for leaving his mother to die, which caused him to grow up in a Muggle orphanage). He murders him by his own hands, which is described as the abominable sin that started the whole process of this monster turning into a literal monster (split-soul).
When Draco gets punished, all the other innocent people he's hurt (Neville who got bullied all the time, Hermione who got called mudblood, Katy who got cursed by his necklace, Ron who got poisoned, etc.) also get their revenge. We see clearly that none of these individuals have a hand in his punishment. Neville doesn't even encounter him in DH.
Neville also doesn't encounter Snape, his worst terror and verbal tormentor through all those years, during the final fight in DH. He did form a resistance against him, but those kids never physically attacked him that we know of, and nothing they did actually hurt Snape's feelings (as he was on their side; he only ever got agitated, worrying about the kids' own fates). The only time they tried to do something *to* Snape, something that could have actually hurt him, was when they tried to steal the Gryffindor Sword and that attempt was unsuccessful. When Snape gets attacked by first McGonnagal and then Voldemort, Neville isn't even there, his hands as clean as those of Harry, who mutely watches without aiding either side. All Neville ever does about Snape is magnanimously (though unwittingly) kill the snake that bit him to death.
Mundungus Fletcher. Stole Sirius' possessions (now Harry's) and sold them, to Harry's rage, in HBP. Harry confronts him and tries to make him stop, physically attacking him in the process (Hermione screams "Harry, no!"), but this leads nowhere as Fletcher defeats him and escapes. Then when Harry has him captured by Kreacher in DH, he magnanimously refrains from lifting a finger to hurt him, detachedly disarming him and interrogating him about the locket. Kreacher meanwhile is genetically driven to defend his master, the Black family, and bangs him over his head with a saucepan to general amusement.
A huge blond Death Eater was seen causing "the most damage" to the good guys near the end of HBP. He also dueled Hagrid and tried to burn his dog alive. The trio encounter the same blond guy in DH and Harry stuns him unconscious.
Dean was seeing Ginny in HBP, when Harry really wanted her for his own girlfriend. Despite this, the magnanimous Harry doesn't lift a finger to hurt him, nor is he ever mean to him, naturally. In DH we find Dean persecuted for his perceived blood status, hunted from society and on the run in the wilderness. Then Harry finds him captive in the Malfoy Manor, and generously frees him in the course of freeing himself.
Pettigrew tries to kill Harry and Ron; his own life-debted hand chokes him to death, carrying out the punishment of Voldemort. Harry and Ron forgivingly try to save him, but of course he suffers and dies. Obviously, Harry couldn't have been anything *but* kind to him, unlike to the Carrows, seeing as Pettigrew is also the betrayer of his parents. Right? Er, right...
800-word prologue: James and Sirius aren't attacking the Death Eaters coming after them to hurt them; they're just running away at top speed, showing off how cool they are on the amazing flying motorbike. They talk insultingly to the Muggle policemen who never did anything to hurt them, and damage their property (FLUMP - BANG - CRUNCH) scaring them out of their pants. The bad guys come crashing into said Muggle property and get what they deserve.