OotP-Snape wanted Harry to see

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No: HPFGUIDX 64763

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, IAmLordCassandra at a... wrote:
> In a message dated 6/26/2003 11:43:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
> p_yanna at h... writes:
> 
>
> 
> I think I've got something!  
> 
> Ok...in a couple of places in the book it is mentioned that Harry 
is not 
> James.  In this memory we see a justifiable reason why Snape hates 
James...we have 
> also seen evidence that Snape "hates" Harry because of his father 
(saying how 
> very like James he is...). Maybe reflecting on this memory will 
make Snape 
> also realize that Harry is not James. 
> 
> 
> And...Maybe it'll make Harry look at Snape differently as well. 
> 
> ~Cassie~ 

Harry is already looking at Snape differently, he started in the end 
of GoF when he realised that Snape would be spying for Dumbledore 
again. I suspect that one of the reasons Dumbledore had Snape teach 
Harry was that he hoped the two of them might find a way past their 
differences. Seeing each other's memories certainly helped but 
Harry's violation of Snape's privacy was a major setback. However, 
once Harry starts seeing besides his irrational anger at Snape for 
Sirius' death I believe there is hope that Snape and Harry will 
reach some sort of understanding. They are much more similar than 
they must have thought and now Harry knows that Snape had been 
telling the truth when he spoke of Harry's father and Snape knows 
that Harry suffered at the Dursleys'

Mim> 
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