OoP: Phone booth and Snape (unrelated)

[medeacallous]

No: HPFGUIDX 62021

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Kia" <kiatrier at y...> wrote:
> Snape - could he be Harry's next father figure? I mean he has 
> seen enough of Harry's childhood memories to understand that 
> Harry is very much like him and not his father. They do have 
> common traits and Harry does need someone to help him out in 
> the fatherly department and he will still have to master 
> occlumency... so is Snape teh right candidate for the job? Or is 
> Harry over the "needing a father (to rebell against)" phase?
> 
> 
> 
> Kia


Well, I definitely think HP is going to be spending a lot more time 
with SS next book (maybe continuing with their lessons - anyone else 
think that was an oddly-un-tied-up loose end??  What if V tries to 
control Harry during the summer???), and that will be an opportunity 
for us to all find out more about Snape.

On a related note, did anyone notice the similarity between Harry's 
experience with Dudley and his gang at the beginning (sitting by 
himself minding his own business on the swing, finding DD and his 
gang simultaneously repellent and compelling) and Snape's memory 
with James et al?  I also noticed a similarity to Snape when HP was 
walking with DD back home, picking on DD and being nasty to him just 
to make himself feel better.  Not that DD didn't deserve it, but 
it's just interesting, or maybe inevitable, that Harry's taking that 
road.

MC