In Defense of Snape (long)

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Hi everyone, please be patient with me. I'm new, and still learning 
how these posts work.
I've read a couple hundred of the posts on this subject. I think S 
dislikes HP, but I don't think he hates him. S refuses to tolerate 
the hero-worship of HP. He is determined to keep HP from arrogance 
about himself or his power against V. I agree with some who say that 
S is the one who won't return to V. Nothing else fits, I think. S is 
no coward. About other S clues: the glitter in S's eyes at certain 
times does seem a key hint. So does his pointed remarks to HP that 
knowing the right ingredients/amounts for certain potions is 
important. 
Speaking of which, remember in Book 5 JKR wrote that a certain potion 
could make a person act in dangerously rash ways that they normally 
wouldn't? Remember how rash SB was being? Could his house elf, a 
loyal DA servant who despised SB, have put a little something in his 
drink/food? How about how ridiculously rash and foolish HP was being?
The house elf had opportunity, the group was there a lot. But back to 
S...
I think AD did ask S to "return" to V (secret mission) and risk a 
horribley painful death, to make V believe S is still a loyal DE. But 
I'm very disturbed by how he treated HP in Occlumency. As inkling108 
pointed out so so well on 1/17, S was very "out of character". Any 
ideaas out there of why S did not train HP exactly what to do, and 
refused to give him time to prepare himself?