OOP : Snape's worst memory (as far as we know)

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No: HPFGUIDX 65523

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Ken and Faith Wallace 
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> > From: "Tamara" <buffyeton at y...>
> > Reply-To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com
> > Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 04:34:03 -0000
> > To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: [HPforGrownups] Re: OOP : Snape's worst memory (as far 
as we know)
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> > I felt dead sorry for Snape reading that chapter about what 
happened
> > to him, but it all fades when I see how he still treats Harry and
> > most everyother student outside Slytherin.  I mean, there's 
holding a
> > grudge, but what he is doing is just ridiculous.  I can see him
> > having to be nice to Malfoy and the other children of DEs, but he
> > doesn't have to be so horrible to Harry in private.  He needs to
> > loose the bratty, wounded attitude and get over it!
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> Yes, I agree - BUT - he has to be that way otherwise Malfoy 
(Draco) would go running to daddy to say that Snape is in the Harry 
Potter fan club - that wouldn't bode well.  Part of the beauty of 
Snape working on the side of the good is that he can intermingle so 
well on the side of the bad.  Everyone at
> Hogwarts, besides Order members, would NEVER suspect that Snape 
would want
> to save Harry, help Harry...
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> Faith

I have to add that Snape wasn't really as awful to Harry during the 
Occlumency lessons as he has been in other circumstances. Harry did 
not speak to him with respect and had a downright hostile attitude 
but Snape answered all his questions and genuinely tried to show him 
what he was to do, accepting the risk of Harry breaking into his 
memories. 

Supposing that Snape must pretend to hate Harry when they are in 
public, he can't exactly be decent to Harry in private either. He 
probably doesn't trust Harry to pretend to hate him as well as he 
does.