Snape and Harry again.

[Casey]

No: HPFGUIDX 113141

 
> Potioncat:
> 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..."

This tells me a couple of things. James knew about the attack 
because he was told Black was a traitor. (That's why they were 
living in a muggle area, right?) 

Also, Snape knew that James had been told. Was he the one that told 
DD about the attack? When Snape found out there was a traitorous 
friend of James', was he the one that assumed that the traitor was 
Black?

Was he the one that told DD with a two fold goal, 1. Pay James his 
life debt back and 2. Prove to DD that protecting Black years before 
had only led to further attempts at murder. Did Snape plan on 
defecting from LV's camp or just get talked into it by DD.


> 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. 

I love this part. James was everyone's hero, for reason's we all 
know. Snape must have felt like he was the only one that knew 
the "real" James Potter. The boy/man that taunted him and made his 
life miserable, and got away with it. He wanted to nip that behavior 
in the bud, when it came to Harry, an even more famous (and loved) 
Potter.

Casey