Harry's bias again, answering several posts

[potioncat]

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> Ceridwen:
> Sometimes I'm sure Snape and everyone else knew.  Other times, I'm 
> not so sure.  Snape made a big enough deal of the 'celebrity', which 
> would only serve if Harry actually was raised as a celebrity.  That 
> wouldn't happen in the Muggle world, only in the WW.  Yet, Snape 
> works at Hogwarts, is part of the Order, is privy to information 
> about the students as a member of faculty, and so on.  I find it 
> confusing, more for Snape than for the nameless faceless WW at 
> large.  For them, I doubt if any of them gave too much thought to 
> where Harry was being raised, they only knew it wasn't in their 
> neighborhood.

Potioncat:
The "celebrity" which Snape refers to is the celebrity that Harry 
discovers at Hogwarts. We're told (I think in the chapter The Potion 
Master) that students are pointing at Harry, whispering about him, 
changing their routes to classes to get to see him, etc. Flitwick fell 
off his chair at Potter's name. So Snape, Grand Lurker that he is, had 
observed this. That much we can know from only SS/PS. As we get each 
new book, we can see other possible motivations for Snape's treatment 
of Harry in that first class, or even at other times in the books.

I'm not looking for reasons to justify Snape's behavior, but to 
explain his actions.

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