[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape and Redemption (was: JKR's best interview)

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In a message dated 8/6/2003 10:35:02 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Mim writes:

> We don't know Snape's exact motives there (could have been the life 
> debt to James) but I'm thinking that although Snape has difficulty 
> telling Harry appart from James, he doesn't want his *dead*. 
> Expelled, maybe but knows that Dumbledore would never do 
> that...

My impression of Snape is that he *doesn't* really hate Harry. Remember how Mrs. Figg said she purposely tried to be boring so that Harry would hate going there, and therefore be sent to her house regularly. What if Snape works hard to make Harry hate him so that Draco Malfoy can report home to his DE family that Snape is definitely *not* on Harry Potter's side?

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