Harry, Neville, and Snape

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No: HPFGUIDX 90257

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sawsan_issa"
<sawsan_issa at e...> 
wrote:
> Is it coincidence that Snape is especially horrible to Harry and
> Neville, considering they are both eligible to be "the one" of the
> prophesy? <Snip>

IMO, he is horrible to Neville because Neville is an easy target, not 
because he's a potential messiah or whatever. I very much doubt DD
has 
shared this particular piece of information with anyone who doesn't 
need to know it, and at the time the prophecy was made Snape wasn't 
working at Hogwarts anyway. He was probably off being a Death Eater 
somewhere or something. Snape is a character I feel a good deal of 
sympathy for, in many ways, but it would be just like him to pick on 
the klutzy kid without it occurring to him that he's less klutzy when 
you aren't picking on him. If you suggested to Snape that Neville 
might be the Chosen Whatever, he'd probably die laughing. Poor Snape. 
Brave, basically honourable and decent, if not likable, but he
belongs in the research lab, not in the classroom.