ootp, Snape questions, and crucio question

[megalynn44]

No: HPFGUIDX 62503

Lynn:

For the first question, I wonder if perhaps one reason Snape is so 
harsh with Neville is because that's how Snape was while at 
Hogwarts. It would certainly make sense if Snape came from a 
background as horrid as that one snippet of memory revealed. Snape 
may certainly have known a lot about the Dark Arts but that wouldn't 
necessarily mean that he had the confidence to apply them. It may 
well be that the reason Snape fell in with the Death Eaters is that 
for the first time he did have some power in his life.

Me:

I'ld kind of ike to expand on this because while reading it I was 
reminded of the glance Harry got into snape head. One of the scenes 
was of a small boy crouch in a corner away from his horrible yelling 
parents. In the muggle world it is common  for abused children to 
grow up to be abusers. Maybe there's a correlation between how Snape 
treats Neville and how he was treated as a child. Like the only way 
to improve the pathertic child is to try to toughin him up by being 
brutal towards him. This somewhat goes along with the theories that 
Snape is mean to the Gryfindors and nice to the Slytherins as a back 
door way of  making the Slytherins weak and the others strong. 

Megalynn