Snape's inconscious view of Harry and Potter (Yes, I mean the And)

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No: HPFGUIDX 98299

I was thinking about Snape, today, and I had a idea.

The problem with certain people after OOTP is that Snape didn't 
change his attitude after seeing Harry's memories and the similitude 
between him and Harry. 

And if he saw it?

It is really difficult to change, very frightening, and Snape could 
be scared to forget the past and go forward.  Hatred is easy and 
comfortable to him; it's familiar.

If he sees that Harry's childhood is not what he thought but worse,
similar to his own childhood, he'll have to acknowledge that Harry is
not James, that James is really gone and that he can't hurt him 
anymore.

He would have to accept that the past is just that, the past, and a
new life is here. He would also have to accept what he's done when he
was a DE. Yeah, he knows what he did, and he told all (maybe) to
Albus, but does he realize or accept it?

Could he do like Andrews in Buffy, only he sees his past in such as
way as to not see the truth, to stay in his difficult, yes, but so
familiar life? Could he be too scared to go forward and repent?  Or to
go forward at all?

He could create in his mind an exaggerated view of Harry's acts to 
compare them with what he sees -- James -- and not separate the son 
from the father. He rarely calls him Harry, always Potter, and it 
help him to keep up the façade.

But each year, he sees one or two little things that Harry does and 
that James would never have done. To ignore them, he insists on
returning to Harry's 'arrogance' or something else, and it's more
difficult to ignore the truth as time passes.

Does someone else find it strange that the same man who read 
Skeeter's article in class to humiliate Harry never said one word 
about what he saw concerning the Dursleys? In Occlumency or in class?

Why there are no "dear, and you're our saviour", "What, the Golden 
Boy couldn't defend himself against some *Muggles*?", "In a 
toilet? What would your fanclub say if they knew that?" It's 
nearly OOC, and it's not in Snape's character to pass on a chance to
ridicule Harry.

I think he began to see the real Harry, and it bothers him, so he 
kept attacking him on a 'safe' subject (so-called stupidity, 
arrogance, etc.) to stay in his safe 'world'. Every time that Harry 
reacts, Snape sees Potter, his Harry, the Little James one, and it's 
what he wants to see. Maybe he deliberately kinda forget what he saw
in this effect. 

(At the same time, the year where someone really sees what the 
Dursleys have done is the one where someone finally warns the Dursleys
in person. Yeah, it could be only a coincidence ;D) 


What do you think?


Christelle

(Thanks Dicey Elf!)