One last try (re: Parenting Harry (was: Re: I don't like him much))

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 120306


imamommy wrote:
" This becomes the departure point.  You see Snape as having Harry's 
best interest at heart; I see Snape as being an embittered, angry man
with an axe to grind.  I don't think Snape disciplines Harry to groom
him for society, or to help him become a better person, or to help him
fight VM.  I think he disciplines, or punishes, Harry because he's
being vindictive towards Harry and, vicariously, James.  "

Del replies:
Strictly speaking, I don't see Snape as anything definite. We don't
know anywhere enough about Snape for me to have a definite opinion
about him. I was just pointing out that some of the disparate elements
we know about him can be construed to indicate that he does have
*some* of Harry's best interests at heart.

If I were forced to choose, I would probably choose your camp, because
it's the one that is statistically the most probable at this point in
the series. But since we're talking about a *JKR* character, I am not
willing to cancel out any possibility, no matter how remote.

She *did* make the DE-hating trustee ex-Auror there to protect Harry,
turn out to be a supposedly dead DE planning Harry's death, after all...

Del