What's in it for Snape

[Susan]

No: HPFGUIDX 97446

AnitaKH pointed out:
 >"The pain had gone as quickly as it had come. Harder to shake off
was the feeling Harry had got from the teacher's look - a feeling
that he didn't like Harry at all." Philosopher's Stone, "The Sorting
Hat" P. 94 paperback

Alla wrote:
>even if Snape is under orders to be Harry's "enemy unmber
one" in school, I believe that this is the role he WANTS to play,
HAPPY to play and which is very attuned to his mindset towards Harry.

And vmonte says:
>I think that we learned a lot more about "Snape the person," during
the penseive scene. I think that Snape lives and wallows in the past.
Snape is right to tell Harry that Voldemort knows peoples weaknesses.
Voldemort knows the people who wear their hearts on their sleeves.

This is my (Susan, er... teilani) response:
I'm sure I'm not the only one who's thought of this, but perhaps 
Snape had a crush on Lily. We know James and Severus hated each other 
while they were in school.  We also know SS became an acolyte of LV, 
but what we don't know is why he left LV in the first place.  Could 
it be that maybe he couldn't stomach the idea of killing wizards who 
weren't purebloods, as in, Lily's not a pureblood!  And IIRC, didn't 
that whole episode that HP saw in the penseive happen right in front 
of Lily?!  How humiliating!  That would certainly help explain why he 
didn't want her sticking up for him!

I'm just saying that Harry probably reminds SS about too many things: 
the treatment he received from the Mauraders (particularly when it 
happened in front of Lily), the fact that Harry looks a great deal 
like his father, perhaps even some shame about hooking up with LV in 
the first place...  See where I'm going?  Just a thought.

Susan (teilani, SB fan, whatever) still desperately trying to get 
this snipping/ attribution thing down.