Snape and Harry again.

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Carol:
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> > It's not through any skill or talent of his own that he's the 
Boy  Who Lived. And Snape wants not only Harry but everyone in the 
class to know that. He doesn't want an insufferably arrogant Harry 
(a second James) who thinks he's better than everyone else. 

Alla:
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 I see no justification whatsoever to what Snape did.
> Preventive attack on eleven year old? 
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> True, Harry does not know anything about WW yet. This "anything" 
> includes Harry not knowing that he is a celebrity. Well, actually, 
> no, Hagrid already told him that he is famous, but surely, Harry 
> does not know what this means.> 
> What good the public humiliation served, I don't know.


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SS/PS, first page of chapter 8:
...Whispers followed Harry from the moment he left his dormitory the 
next day.  People lining up outside classrooms stood on tiptoe to 
get a look at him, or doubled back to pass him in the corridors 
again, staring.  Harry wished they wouldn't, because he was trying 
to conentrate on finding his way to classes.


I'm sure Snape saw this attention.  Add to it this paraphrase:
"Your father died, too arrogant to believe Black was the traitor..."

We don't know if Snape has any idea what Harry's life has been 
like.  I'm not sure if DD even understood how bad it was.  But Snape 
does see the attention the boy is already getting.

Snape knows (although we don't and Harry doesn't) what James was 
like.  He isn't the only person on staff who expects Harry to be 
like his parents, but he may be the only one who expects that 
behavior to be bad. 
 
And, although we don't know it yet, Snape knows something about 
arriving at school and quickly getting a reputation for magical 
ability... Particularly a magical ability valued by a group of 
Slytherins who almost all became DEs.

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