Spinner's End Clues/Harry's Hatred of Snape

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 153843

zgirnius:
Are we supposed to 
> get something from all this alcohol consumption? I think some neat 
> points were made about this in our chapter diuscussions... I just 
no 
> longer recall them :(

Magpie:
HBP, like CoS, is a Slytherin book so completely water-logged.  It's 
not just drinking (Harry gets Slughorn and Hagrid drunk, Snape 
serves wine, Dumbledore drinks the potion in the cave, the Durlseys 
refuse mead).  There's poisoned mead, a new Potions master, liquid 
luck, love potions galore, a boat trip, the book's awash in blood 
and tears, the bathroom's important again.  

Katydidn't:

Harry did not in any way inherit James' dislike of Snape--Snape
managed to engender that all on his own. The only thing Harry
inherited from his father with regards to Snape was *Snape's* hatred
of anything Potter--not the other way around as Lupin seems to be
saying.

Magpie:
I don't think Remus is claiming that Harry has no reason of his own 
to hate Snape, or that he only hates him because his father did.  
He's comparing the way that Harry and James both react to Snape once 
provoked.  And he may very well be right, having known James and now 
seen the way Harry thinks about Snape.  

-m