Favorite Snape Scenes - He's such a lovely professor, no really.

[Renee]

No: HPFGUIDX 122215


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Alla: 
>  I don't think Snape ever 
> managed to grow up as far as Harry and James are concerened.
> 
> He is so engrossed in his petty childhood vendettas that he does 
not 
> realise that he won long time ago. James is dead. He is alive. 
Maybe 
> it is time to stop tormenting James's son and get to know him for 
> who he is. Sigh...
> 

Renee:
That James is dead is precisely the problem, I think. Snape is 
furious at James for being dead: now he'll never get the better of 
him. Maybe that's why he's constantly provoking and goading Harry, 
deliberately antagonising him so he'll eventually be a worthy 
substitute for James. He'll either be in for a disappointment if 
Harry takes the moral high-road, or for a nasty surprise when Harry 
turns out to be the more capable wizard.