[HPforGrownups] First potions lesson

[speedy_j_g]

No: HPFGUIDX 145813

Irene Mikhlin wrote:
> People make it sound as if Snape singled out Harry for attacking 
> him with Imperio five times in the row. Rabid dog indeed.

> He just asked him several questions, which were covered in the 
> textbook. Was it so horribly unfair to expect Harry to know the 
> anwers? "But he lives with Muggles!", you say. So what, so does 
> Hermione, yet she've read the book and knows the answers.
<snip>
> I read this scene as Snape trying to make two points:
> 1. I have very high standards here, come to the lessons prepared or 
> suffer.
> 2. No special treatment for celebrities.


Or you could see it as what it is...the continuation of a childish hate toward James Potter taken over to his son Harry James Potter.
Everyone says James and Snape hated each other although Sirius and Snape hated each other even more.  I don't know about you but I usually didn't prepare the next class if I didn't know what was covered and surely not before even having my first class in a new and unknown subject. As I see it Snape just couldn't see the differences between James and Harry. Nobody sees Harry as what he is, a boy, a young man if you want, who would give all his fame and money to have someone who cares about him and protects him.  Harry never wanted his fame besides he just shared a look with Ron before Snape bore down on him.
Snape just never let go of a unnamed grudge towards James and just took 
it over and placed it on Harry.

speedy