OOP Re: Re-Severus and Sirius

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No: HPFGUIDX 64654

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jw01010101" 
<johnmoorlands at h...> wrote:
> Hi (first post - I'm John from England}
> Could it be that seeing Aunt Marge's dog chase Harry up the tree 
is 
> the start of Snape starting to think differently to before about 
> Harry? Okay, so the Pensieve incident soon after will probably 
have 
> wrecked this, but it could be a first step to Snape tolerating 
Harry 
> more (although I can never see him actually liking him) as he sees 
> that Harry's childhood was not unlike his for hardship?
> 
> ~John
> 

My initial thought at Snape mentioning the dog was also that he had 
found that memory quite hard to take. However, it could also be that 
he wanted to prove to Harry that he had glimpsed into his mind and 
was surprisingly tactful enough not to mention Harry crying over a 
bicycle or Harry's kiss with Cho.

I can't help thinking that the real reason Dumbledore had Snape 
teach Harry was that he hoped the two of them would start to 
tolerate each other. Harry violating Snape's privacy the way he did 
was certainly a setback but I'm hopeful for the books to come.

> 
Mim