Harry begins to act like someone I know...

[potioncat]

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Potiocat wrote:
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 And, Snape never told Harry about Sirius or really even how bad 
> James  had been.  Harry found that out himself.
> > Potioncat
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> Melanie wrote:  He never told Harry about Sirius but he certainly 
> said really horrible things about his father at ever point he 
could.  
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> Alla wrote:
> I don't usually have many positive things to say about Snape's 
> treatment of Harry and I agree with Melanie - you don't belittle a 
> child about his dead father, ever. But, when Snape was saying these 
> horrible things in PoA, I felt the despair beyond the insults. I 
> thought that Snape was upset by James and Lily death and did not 
want Harry to die.
> 
> I don't know if I feel like that after OoP, though.


Potioncat again:
My original comment was in response to someone saying that Sirius 
hadn't spoken against Snape in PoA.  Sirius was surprised that Snape 
was at Hogwarts, didn't think Snape had been a DE, and warned them 
about Karkaroff.  

Yes, Snape was wrong to belittle Harry's dad.  But, IIRC, all he ever 
said was that James strutted around and thought he was better than 
everyone else. Not so horrible. He could have said worse if he really 
wanted to. (Somewhat confirmed by James' friends later on.) 

I'm not entirely certain that Snape understands that Harry isn't like 
that.

Alla, could you expand on your feeling after OoP....of my goodness, I 
sound like a support group leader

Potioncat who just thought that we might all need support groups 
after book 7. And before this gets out of hand, wants to say that 
support groups are good things and she is now or has been in part of 
one...or more.