The 'Seeming' Reality

[houyhnhnm102]

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Alla:
 
> I take it it is your argument that **everything** that 
> Harry judges about Snape is wrong? And Snape really does 
> not hate everybody whose last name is Potter and when he 
> screams "you and your filfy father" , it really does not 
> mean that Snape hates both Potters and confuses them a lot?

houyhnhnm:

I see Harry as reacting to Snape rather than judging him 
(except in PS/SS where he did turn out to be wrong and HBP 
where I am certain he will also turn out to be wrong). What 
I mean is nowhere does Harry analyze Snape's behavior toward 
himself objectively and think that Snape is a bitter man who 
can't get over past hatreds and who projects his own misery 
onto others (as Ron does with Filtch).  Harry's attitude 
toward Snape is stricly reactionary:  He hates me so I hate him.

I think Harry will get over that in book 7.  I think he 
will see Snape with pity as a bitter man who can't get 
over past hatreds and who projects his own misery onto 
others.  I also think that a lot of Snape's apparently 
*gratuitous* meanness will turn out to have been motivated 
by fear that Harry is putting himself in danger or that 
he is not learning what he needs to in order to defeat the Dark Lord.

That is my prediction.