Sins of his parents?

[tiger_queen429]

No: HPFGUIDX 70007

IMO, I see Harry as suffering from being judged as his parents. 
Everyone who knew his parents compared him to them especially with 
how much he looked like James and has Lily's eyes.Petunia and Snape 
in particular compare him to his parents in ways that have nothing to 
do with his appearence.
Petunia took Harry in I think because he is her sister's son. Though 
Petunia may not have liked Lily, she deep down probally loved her. 
And this love for her only family left made her take Harry. At the 
same time Petunia probally felt resentful of the special treatment 
Lily recieved by their parents. Thus this explains why she and Vernon 
treated Harry so badly. For some, raising a child that is not your 
own can be very difficult, especially one that you did not want or 
expect. While I do think Harry's treatment by the Dursleys is over 
the top, I feel that the emotions behind the treatment are sound. I 
would have found it more believible if Harry always had the second 
bedroom, but never recieved any gifts and was tormented by Dudley, 
but still had one or two friends.
With Snape, every time he sees Harry; he sees James, his bully back 
when he was a student at Hogwarts. Though he can't do anything to 
James now, he can take out some of his anger towards James out on 
Harry. I personally think that Snape is a good teacher of potion, his 
difficult manner in teaching the class will no doubt help most people 
do well in their OWL's and NEWT's. Even Harry does well on his 
Potions OWL because he knows what he is doing thanks to Snape. Though 
I don't doubt that for most people potions may be a hard class, but 
something they will all do reasonable well in. Snape in my opinion is 
overly critical of Harry both in and out of class. Harry very rarely 
breaks rules unless he has to the duel with Malfoy and sneaking into 
Hogsmeade being the two major exceptions to this pattern, but Snape 
is always going on about how Harry constanly breaks rules and such. 
James may have done pretty much what he wanted without regard for the 
rules, but Harry is not James. 
Sirius too, i think place too much comparison on Harry with regards 
to James. Harry would never just attack someone without reason like 
James or do something really dangerous for kicks.
Harry in my opinion is seen too much as his parents, but not enough 
as his own person.

Tigerqueen