Harry IS Snape.

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"horridporrid03" <horridporrid03 at y...> wrote:

> Let's see.... He [Snape] attempted to save
> the lives of the Potter family. 

After he had put the Potter family in danger in the first place.

> He succeeded in saving Harry's life at least twice. 

And as I have pointed out before there are excellent reasons why even
a supremely evil Snape would save Harry's life on those occasions, in
fact if he had not done exactly that then my evil Snape theory would
be blown out of the water. 

> Even *Harry* recognizes that his hatred is
> a bit beyond logical. *Harry* doesn't think
> Snape really had anything to do with
> Sirius's death

I don't believe that is true, I believe Harry is convinced Snape is at
least partially responsible for Sirius's death, and if he had seen
chapter 2 as we readers had he would have even more reason to think so.

> he [Harry] doesn't yet know that by the
> end of the school year Snape will kill
> Dumbledore.  So at this point Harry
> is being unreasonable

I would not call Harry "unreasonable", I would call him a good judge
of character, a much better judge than Dumbledore. If Harry doesn't
trust another person even though he has not seen him do anything bad
and later it turns out that the person is indeed untruthful then I
think Harry should be praised not condemned; I would certainly pay
very close attention the next time he says he doesn't trust somebody.

> I see much more logic in Snape's
> hatred of James than Harry's
> hatred of Snape. 

Despite his flaws in the end James turned out to be a good person, but
Snape turned out to be a monster just like Harry thought; so Snape's
judgment was poor and Harry's judgment was excellent. 

> So what's the good reason at the *beginning*
> of the book for Harry to hate Snape as much
> or more than Voldemort?

Harry has always hated Snape and as the series progresses the hate
increases, but I don't think he hated him as much as Voldemort at the
start of book 6,he did at the end however. And with good reason! 

> Wait, so Snape *didn't* save Dumbledore
> from the ring curse?

I don't know for a fact that Snape didn't save Dumbledore, but I do
know enough to be very skeptical of such a claim, Harry did too. 

> Who did then?

Neither I nor Harry have any idea, however there are about 6 billion
people on the planet and almost every one of them is a more likely
candidate than Snape. 

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