Snape and Harry again.

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 113961

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" 
<dumbledore11214 at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" 
<foxmoth at q...> 
> wrote:
> >  I disagree that Snape has no reason for trying to slap Harry 
> > down. Harry did raise his eyebrows during that first class, he 
> > was in Hogsmeade without permission, etc. 
> 
> 
> Alla:
> 
> Harry raised his eyebrows AFTER Snape started attacking him. 
Snape  says 'Harry Potter. Our new - celebrity", (yes, I consider 
that  sentence to be the beginning of carefully prepared verbal 
attack) <

And was Professor Flitwick attacking Harry  or making too much 
of his celebrity when he fell off his chair at reading Harry's 
name? The speech at which Harry raises his brows is about 
potion-making and comes after Snape has finished taking the 
roll, which means there were at least three names after Harry's:
Weasley, Thomas and Zabini. 

Granted that Snape is very unfair to ignore Draco's sniggering 
and slap Harry down for eyebrow raising, but I am trying to 
understand Snape, not justify him. 

 I do not see how somebody so committed to Our Side that he 
has Dumbledore's trust, and who  could leave Voldemort's 
service when Voldemort was *winning,* can be motivated by 
sheer cruelty.  Saying that Snape is just a nasty man who hates 
kids and can't tell Harry from James doesn't explain things for 
me.

Pippin