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

[heathernmoore]

No: HPFGUIDX 30929

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "lucky_kari" <lucky_kari at y...> wrote:
> --- 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.
> 

<snip>

> Eileen 

Alternatively, Snape may have known roughly what the others knew, and simply doubted their conclusions. This would play in with the "Harry is the Phoenix / Heir of Gryffindor" theor as well. I've speculated in the past that Snape may have been extremely skeptical about applying the prophecy to Harry and so has resented the (rest of the?) Order's fixation on and cultivation of the boy. He doesn't seem the type to give much creedence to divination as a rule. 

During his task, perhaps he encountered something which has finally convinced him that he has been wrong all this time, and that Harry as the Heir may well die in the process of taking down Voldemort. And / Or he may have encountered some details matching details of one of loopy Trelawney's doomfilled predictions. As cranky as Harry makes him, I can't imagine Snape would be comfortable with *that*.      

 -- Heather (uma)