Dumbledore and TrustSnape rant

[susanbones2003]

No: HPFGUIDX 73434

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" 
<gbannister10 at a...> wrote:
> 
> "Geoff Bannister" wrote:
> > > In PS, Snape reveals his intense dislike of Harry from the 
> word go. Harry is faced with this without knowing why. If Snape 
> had managed to control his dislike of Harry notwithstanding the 
> fact that Harry was physically very like James (and falling into 
> the trap of treating Harry as being James), the contact between 
> the two might have been totally different. > >
> 
> Jennifer ("susanbones2003") wrote:
> > I agree with your observations, that things might have been very 
> > different had Snape been able to separate the son from the 
father. 
> 
> 
> Couldn't agree more. As a side issue to this - my apologies if this 
> has been covered in the past - is to ask the question as to why 
> Harry's attention really focussed in on Snape at the beginning when 
> his scar hurt when Snape looked at him:
> 
> "It happened very quickly. The hook-nosed teacher looked past 
> Quirrell's turban straight into Harry's eyes - and a sharp, hot 
pain 
> shot across the scar on Harry's forehead." (PS - p.94)
> 
> It is only later in the books that the suggestion is made that the 
> pain in his scar is more directly linked to Voldemort. Thoughts?
> 
> "Geoff Bannister"

Geoff,
My first take on this, and it's probably not nearly all there is to 
it, but my first take was misdirection. JKR had to set up Snape as a 
suspcious character but her light touch with the clues back then made 
that moment almost forgettable upon first read. The good thing it did 
was cast Snape into a dark light immediately. And goodness knows he 
lived up to all Harry's first impressions.
Jennifer