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[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 138281

colebiancardi:
>>Full nasty mode to you, perhaps.  We've seen Snape be a heck of lot
more nasty.  Was he calling Harry names?  No.  He was telling him a
couple of things - no unforgivable curses & blocked again & again,
until he can keep his mouth shut & his mind closed.  Actually, Snape
was not as bad as we've seen him with Harry like he was in books 1-3 -
I thought Snape was much more nasty then.  

CathyD:
Funny you should mention that.  On a recent re-read of the whole series, I noticed a change in Snape's attitude toward Harry in GoF.  He stopped threatening to have him expelled for one thing.  Yes, he did threaten him with Veritaserum but to what end?  What Snape thought - that Harry had stolen the Gillyweed for the second task and that he had previously stolen the Bicorn Horn and Boomslang Skin - was incorrect.  And use of Veritaserum is controlled by the MoM anyway.   What I'm saying is the threat changed from getting him out of the school to keeping him in school and working on him there.  Why?  Because Snape knows the Dark Mark is getting darker every day, what that means,  and Harry needs training.  IMO, Snape only knows the first part of the prophecy.  Whether or not *he* believes Harry is capable of being the one doesn't matter; Snape knows LV believes Harry to be the *one* from the way LV responded to the part of the prophecy he heard.  Which means LV will never stop hunting him because LV perceives Harry as a threat.

>>Snape wouldn't let anyone
curse or hex Harry, and all Snape did was deflect Harry's curses - he
did not counterhex Harry.  Until Harry got on his weak spot - with the
Coward Line - only then did Snape do an wizard equivalent of a
*bitch-slap* with the white-hot, whiplike something that hit Harry in
the face.

CathyD:
I agree...and fortunately that's all I have to say.  ;)  I've never heard the term *bitch-slap* but it certainly applies.  A good hard slap in the face that knocks you back and makes you see stars.  


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