Snape's view (was Re: Harsh Morality)

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 121228


Nora wrote:
<snip>
> Likewise, 
> James may well have changed and done so obviously.  But to someone 
> with Snape's mindset and particular victim complex, he's always 
> going to be the same. <snip>

Carol notes:
But we have no evidence that James and Snape had any direct contact
with each other after they left Hogwarts at seventeen or eighteen.
Snape probably knew that James had married and had a child and that he
was a member of the Order but none of that would change his view of
James as a person. James probably knew nothing whatever about Snape
once they left school, certainly not that he had become a DE and then
a spy for Dumbledore. So there's no reason why each would not retain
the same view of the other that he had held on their last day at Hogwarts.

I think that despite their continued mutual hatred, Snape probably
somehow tried to prevent the attack on the Potters. If James failed to
act on that information (how dare he let himself be murdered?),
leaving Snape still in James's (life) debt with no way to repay him,
naturally Snape would continue to think him arrogant and hate him for it.

Carol