Snape and GOF

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No: HPFGUIDX 144449

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jen Reese" <stevejjen at e...> 
wrote:
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> Jen: You don't think Snape really views Harry the way he presented 
> him? I thought that was probably one of the truths he was telling! 
 I think 
> Snape meant everything he said about Harry.
> 

Lolita:

I do agree that Snape thinks - or at least convinces himself on a 
regular - that Harry is mediocre in every way. However, I don't think 
he was telling the whole truth and nothing but the truth about Harry 
at Spinner's End. If you recall, he said he - and the other DE's - 
thought Harry to be a potential future Dark Lord whom they could 
follow - a standard around which they could rally once more. But I 
challenge ANYONE to say that they honestly believe that Snape would 
ever call Harry 'Master' and kiss the hem of his robes. If there is 
anything we can tell for sure about Snape, it is that he has 
sincerely hated and loathed Harry from the first time he laid his 
eyes on him.

If nothing else, he might have been trying - from that first Potions 
lesson - to make Harry hate him in return. In other words, to make 
sure that Harry associates him with the very worst things a wizard 
can be. That way, if anyone came some day and tried to lure Harry 
into being the new LV, Harry would turn them down, knowing that he 
would have to associate with the likes of Snape if he said yes. I 
think that, if this scenario is true, Snape has actually been trying 
relly hard, from the very beginning, to make Harry honestly hate him. 
Needless to say, he has done his job well. :)

 

> Jen: I really wonder if Snape convinced Voldemort so thoroughly.  


Lolita:

I agree completely. Voldemort is not a trusting soul (hmm -
 'soul' :). He did honestly believe that Snape had left him forever. 
Even though he knows, after Snape has presented him with his story 
upon his turning up, that Snape would be more useful to him alive 
than dead (I think we can conclude that this was his line of 
reasoning, since he didn't kill Snape, and he wouldn't spare him for 
sheer sentimentality), he still doesn't trust him completely. LV is 
seriously deranged. He trusts no one. Do you think he would ever 
completely trust anyone after they had gambled with his trust before? 
(not that he trusted them completely in the first place. DD was 
telling the truth - LV has no friends and no confidants, he is a lone 
ranger). And funnily enough, Wormtail is suddenly living with Snape. 
Snape can put two and two together, as we have been told on numerous 
occasions. He certainly knows that LV has made Wormtail his flatmate 
in order to have him spied on. But he can do nothing about it, apart 
from throwing petty insults upon Wormtail, who cares about being 
insulted about as much as LV loves his 'friends'.

Lolita