Snape/Harry coincidence?

[horridporrid03]

No: HPFGUIDX 140307

> >>Carol:
> > <snip>
> > Could the SS/PS and GoF passages I've quoted also be deliberately
> > coincidental, the later recalling the earlier to create a       
> > parallel between Harry and Snape? 
> > <snip>
 
> >>Jen:
> <snip>
> That's not to say I don't see a huge parallel between Harry and   
> Snape already.
> <snip>
> Harry identified more with Snape than James after viewing the     
> Pensieve scene. 
> <snip> 
> Then HBP comes along and there are *more* commonalities. Donna 
> mentions a good one, Harry's obsession with Draco as similar to 
> Snape's obsession with the Marauders. Harry learns from the HBP in 
> a way he never learned from Snape, and Hermione draws the         
> conclusion that Snape's DADA speech was similar in tone & style to 
> Harry's speeches about Voldemort. Last, but most important, both   
> have Dumbledore's trust, and that trust led to the parallel scenes 
> in the cave and on the tower.
> <snip>

Betsy Hp:
The parallel between Snape and Harry is fascinating to me too.  
Something I noticed is that when Harry goes down to the lake at the 
end of OotP, feeling alone and depressed, he sits "behind a tangle 
of shrubs" (scholastic hardback p.855).  Which echoed, to my mind, 
with young Severus sitting "in the dense shadows of a clump of 
bushes" (ibid p.644) in the pensieve scene.  It's not an exact match 
wording wise, but there's still a picture of two fifth year boys, 
notably different from their peers, mirroring each other at this 
spot by the lake.

It was also interesting to me that with Snape's potions book, "Ron 
had more difficulty deciphering the handwriting than Harry did," 
(HBP p.194).  Harry really seems to relate to and maybe even 
understand the half-blood Prince in a way that Ron and Hermione 
don't.

> >>Jen:
> All that's left is finding out Snape loved Lily--Oh please, no,   
> that one is too much for me ;)! Regardless, I think Harry *will* 
> see Snape with Lily's eyes of compassion one day, and only then   
> will Harry (and readers) see him for exactly who he is.

Betsy Hp:
Heh.  I can totally get behind Snape and Lily dating at some point.  
Though I think it might be more powerful (especially with JKR) if 
they were just friends.  But yeah, that could well be the big 
shocker reveal that Harry has to deal with regarding his mother.  
("But...but...She was supposed to be practically perfect in every 
way!") 

In some ways, by starting to embrace his inner-Slytherin, I think 
Harry may be getting primed for just such a reveal, a new take on 
Snape.  Certainly his admiration for the Prince will help as well, I 
think.  Though of course, the whole Snape killing Dumbledore thing 
is a huge roadblock to overcome, so the drama will still flow. <g>

Betsy Hp