Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another, just like how Severus Snape and Harry Potter were able to put aside how much they loathe each other to show each other that they both miss Harry’s mother. Ponyboy Curtis is a prime example of letting go of your hate to show that you understand like he did with the Socs. Although, you may not be able to see that you understand, or someone else does without someone pointing it out to you. Ponyboy feels like the socs just don’t care about Johnny’s death because he killed Bob, but he realizes that everyone is human and that death of a murderer in self defense still means that someone will miss them no matter who it is.