As much as I like Snape, it really pissed me off when he watched Harry's painful memories, and just taunted him and laughed. And when Harry watched one of Snape’s worst memories, he was horrified and he spent months thinking about how his father treated Snape, and reevaluated the whole image of James that he had in his head.
“the bravest man i ever knew” watched Harry’s memories OF HIS ABUSIVE CHILDHOOD AND LAUGHED AT THEM.