Snape and Neville

[Bekki]

No: HPFGUIDX 133302

I hope this isn't already being discussed; I searched. The way 
Snape treated Neville in Potions class in the past books always 
broke my heart. In HBP, we learned Snape was the Deatheater that overheard part of the prophecy. Could Snape's torment of Neville 
be based not only on Neville's Potions troubles but on:
a) a general digust at the apparent ineptness of the boy who 
might have been "The Chosen One"?
b) regret that he did not try to convince Voldemort to go after 
Neville so that Lily would not be endangered?

Of course, I am making huge presumptions that Snape hasn't always 
been completely evil and devoted to Voldemort and, in b, that he 
felt some sort of esteem towards Lily.

I was very amused to read about the "CHOP" and "PASHMINAS" theories 
at Hypothetic Alley yesterday.

Bekki