Snape and Harry again.

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> Potioncat:
> There are some scenes in the book that I think can be explained, 
but 
> certainly not all of them. 

Alla:

Definitely, not all of them. 


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 4.  (Here is the greatest longshot) Could Draco have complained 
> loudly that Potter had rebuffed his gesture of friendship?  Making 
> Harry appear stuck up?


Alla:

All of your examples are great, which as I said already to me 
definitely explain a a lot, but just don't justify what Snape does.

But I hope that Draco complaining if it is indeed true, did not 
influence Snape's thoughts on the subject of Harry (whathever these 
thoughts are), because that will mean to me that Snape INDEED cares 
about what Draco thinks and genuenely wants to favor him, not just 
for pretense purposes 

Potioncat:

> I'm interested in seeing what JKR does with Snape, particularly 
> since he is based (to a degree) on a teacher she had. 


Alla:


Do you think that it is possible whether Snape will survive or not, 
whether he is ESE! or not may depend in part how JKR really feels 
about this teacher. Her former teacher, I mean.
I am not  saying that her vision of the story will change 
significantly, but if she still dislikes her former teacher 
subconsciously, it may influence Snape's fate ijn a bad way. :o)




Potioncat:
> Something else that I find interesting, and it may just be for no 
> reason at all.  Snape taunts Harry with questions that very few 
> students would know.  Why are the Slytherins laughing?  Why are 
they 
> so sure Snape won't pick on them?  After all, as far as we know, 
> they don't know him any better than the Gryffindors know 
McGonagall.


Alla:

Do tell me, what are you getting at? :o) Do you think that 
Slytherins know that Snape was somehow forced to become their head 
of the house and therefore will not do anything which they will not 
like? As former Gryffindor, I mean? :o)