User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 424: Avatar, Review and Commentary/@comment-24277053-20150316193039/@comment-7418318-20150316194028

Slightly worse?

If it wasn't for Wendy and Chelia BOTH healing Lucy, Lucy would have died and you call that slightly worse than those few hits that Flare gave Lucy that barely left bruises? oO

Not to mention that Flare was forced into behaving like that due to the abuse Ivan put her through, as Lucy well knew at Ryuzetsu land.

Now Gajeel is far better for measuring since he was more brutal than Flare and also torturing Lucy of his own will and also tried to kill her... or at least risked being wrong and killing her by accident IF he was aware of Natsu being close enough to stop the daggers.

I too think that Lucy will forgive Minerva, but I still would like Minerva to apologize. She doesn't even need to break down in tears or something so drastic, but looking really unconfortable and whispering a sincere "I'm sorry" would be nice and a good character growth for Minerva. It'd show that she finally managed to put the crap behind that her father beat into her as a child.