Harry IS Snape!

[pippin_999]

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> Marianne:
> As always, an interesting post.  However, where in this view of 
 Snape, does Snape's tale of remorse come in?  If he has firmly held 
onto his hatred of James from school age through the present,
(which  I agree he has, like a barnacle to a hull) then it seems like
the remorse he told Dumbledore about is a somewhat selective 
remorse, if  indeed it existed at all. And for me, that still calls
into question  how much Snape can be believed. 

Pippin:

The one place I disagree with Julie's excellent post is the idea that
Snape wouldn't have been sorry to learn that James was dead. 
Hatred, no matter how irrational, is not the same thing as wanting 
to kill someone. No one would deny that Harry hates Draco; all the 
same Harry was horrified by the result of his spell and surely would 
have been sorry if Draco had died -- not because he cared about
Draco but because Harry did not want to be a killer.

Quirrell distinguishes between those who hate and those who
are willing to kill:

"But Snape always seemed to hate me so much."
"Oh, he does," said Quirrell casually, "heavens, yes. He was at 
Hogwarts with your father, didn't you know? They loathed 
each other. But he never wanted you _dead_."

Is  it such a stretch to think that despite trying to get James
expelled, and hexing him whenever he got the chance, 
despite joining the Death Eaters, Snape did not want to kill 
James?

Bella has her doubts about whether Snape has what it takes...
"you were once again absent while the rest of us ran dangers"
"the usual slithering out of action" Though surely Snape hated
Sirius as much as he hated James, he didn't think, even in PoA
that  he had reason to kill him, "Give me a reason and I swear 
I will" despite the fact that he believed Sirius was a Death Eater,
a traitor, a murderer, and had once  tried to kill *him*.

Perhaps teenaged Snape, like Draco, fancied he could become 
a killer, but was revolted when  faced with the reality.

Pippin