James and Snape. Was. Re: Snape and Harry again.

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 113757

The Other Cheryl wrote:
Wasn't it said that part of the Snape/James interaction was James'
superior Quiddich skills? Being team members of their respective
houses might also, if the Gryffindore/Slytherin rivalry was as 
strong, be a part of the background hostilities between MWPP and Snape
et al. If the seventh years were active members and graduating that
year, Snape would have been deprived of support and possibly faced
with a much poorer team, much like Gryffindore in OotP.
> 
      The Other Cheryl

Carol:
Sirius, who is not the best person to guess what is going on in
Severus's mind, tells Harry that he thinks the young Snape was jealous
of James's Quidditch talent. But I doubt that Severus ever expressed
any such sentiments to him or to James. He was not exactly in their
confidence, or they in his. James was a Quidditch hero, a renowned and
popular school athlete, so Sirius is *guessing* that Severus was
jealous. (Quite possibly it was James's *popularity* rather than his
Quidditch talent that Severus was jealous of--if he was jealous at
all. There were clearly other reasons for his intense dislike of
James.) We can't take Sirius's guess as fact (canon) here.

As for the idea that the Slytherin gang might have been a Quidditch
team, that appears to be pure speculation at the moment. (Besides, a
Quidditch team has seven members. With Lucius Malfoy gone, the
Slytherin gang would have had six members that we know of: Bellatrix
Black, the two Lestrange brothers, Evan Rosier, Wilkes, and Severus
Snape. Who's the seventh? Macnair? I don't think he's named.) Anyway,
I think Sirius would have mentioned that they were a team rather than
a "gang" (like Pansy Parkinson's gang of Slytherin girls) if that were
the case.

Carol