Snape & Harry after GoF (was: Lucius Malfoy, Snape's cover)

[lucky_kari]

No: HPFGUIDX 30927

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Rachel Fellman <islefrank at y...> wrote:
>     Snape is suddenly looking at Harry with something
> other than hatred or fury. 

Brilliant! You've put your finger right on what I've been feeling 
about that scene. 

>Exactly *what* it is we
> don't know, but I'm thinking that somewhere in there
> is a new -if grudging- respect. The kid has duelled
> Voldemort and won. By this point Snape must have heard
> the entire story and realized that no matter what he'd
> thought of Harry before, that is an achievement to be
> reckoned with.

Talking about "the entire story", what if Snape only now was hearing 
the "entire story" as in, the details of everything we readers know? 
There is substantial reason to think, and in some cases to know, that 
Snape hasn't been getting the full story all these years.

Book I - Dumbledore says that everyone knows what happened between 
Harry and Voldemort, but, of course, he doesn't literally mean that. 
Everyone knows Harry faced Voldemort down there, but not 
particularily what happened, except for Harry and Dumbledore, and 
there was a brief period where Harry was unconscious before 
Dumbledore came. Anyway, Snape probably didn't know about how Quirrel 
was burnt, any more than Fred, George, Draco, or Neville knew. 

Book II - I'm betting Snape didn't learn about the diary in the end. 
It's a detail I could see Dumbledore keeping quiet for the benefit of 
the Weasley family. And, of course, if Dumbledore wanted to keep 
Ginny's role quiet in it, he wouldn't go around accusing Lucius 
Malfoy of his part in it, especially as there was no proof of it.

Book III - Snape never did hear the end of the story till some time 
later (we don't know when, perhaps as long as the end of GoF?) 

Book IV - Things come to a head, Snape must do whatever it is, and 
Dumbledore tells him everything about Harry: as much as we know, 
maybe some more things. Therefore, any respect for Harry could come 
from a full knowledge of the past as well as the events of GoF

Eileen