New Messagge: Ripper, the dog

[Peggy]

No: HPFGUIDX 72807

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Evangelina Gonzalez Rivas 
<evy1507 at y...> wrote:
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> When I read the Occlumency chapter I had the feeling that Ripper, 
the dog -or Aunt Marge, possibly- might be connected to LV in any way 
since Snape noticed something suspicious in the image Harry had of 
the dog and immediately asked him who the owner of Ripper was.
>Any comments?

Now me:

I think that was Snape reacting to the first hint that Harry wasn't 
*quite* like his father after all.  Snape finally got a clue that 
Harry wasn't what Snape imagined him to be. 

After all, when Snape first met Harry, all he really knew about him 
was that James (whom he hated) was his father and LV (whom he had 
previously served as a DE) had somehow disappeared after cursing 
him.  For all Snape knew, HP had grown up coddled and pampered as 
James' son and as the Boy Who Lived.  His first look inside Harry's 
head showed him how wrong he was.

Peg