Changing the title because I'm tired of it, was "Some won't like it". The Scar Connection Implications.

[Amanda Geist]

No: HPFGUIDX 130079

Amanda:

> I think Severus Snape controls a great deal of emotion. He's 
usually quite
> controlled. That's the main reason that it stands out so when his 
control
> slips. 
 
Sherry now:
> 
> Ok.  Now I have to say, oh come on!  We have been told that Snape 
hates
> Harry because of James.  Are you calling that a "grown man"? It's 
one of the
> most incredibly immature and ridiculous things I've ever heard of!  
(I mean
> that attitude in Snape is ridiculous, not you, Amanda.)  To hate a 
child
> because of that child's parents, to have preconceived ideas about 
that child
> that you are not willing to release, that is not the example of a
> reasonable, emotionally controlled or mature individual.

Let me clarify that I differentiate "control" from "maturity" 
or "reasonability." Snape's hatred of Harry, and of Sirius and Lupin, 
is usually quite controlled and focused. The hatred itself is another 
issue; but his control of it is demonstrable in canon. Largely, as I 
have pointed out, by contrast with the moments when, under extreme 
provocation, it slips (Shrieking Shack; end of PoA) or comes very 
close (kitchen scene in OoP).

~Amanda