Snape and Harry again.

[juli17 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 113958

Alla wrote:

> In regard to your next point - please, please, don't think that I am 
> picking up on you, please feel free to disagree as much as you can, 
> but I think that if I hear again "slapping Harry's ego down" as 
> justification of Snape's abuse of him, I am going to bang my head 
> against the wall. :o)
> 

I don't think Snape "slapping Harry's ego down" justifies his abuse
of Harry. But I think *Snape* may use it as a justification for his
actions. Between that justification, and the fact that Harry is in
some ways like James (not the arrogance, but the ability to 
regularly escape getting into serious trouble for his infractions--
whether those infractions are justified or not), Snape can tell 
himself he's doing it for the brat's own good, in a sense beating
the bad behavior and arrogance out of Harry. This also allows Snape
to avoid facing his inability to see Harry as his own person, rather
than as a reincarnation of James sent to plague him again. 

Julie 


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