What if...? (was Snape / Harry & Temptation / Healing

[lil.magill at adelphia.net]

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---- horridporrid03 <horridporrid03 at yahoo.com> wrote: 

What I do think is that in some ways young!Snape is Harry without 
Harry's advantages. 

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Marion here:

Brings up an interesting question.  Imagine if Harry wasn't the Famous Harry Potter, but just an orphan living in the same circumstances with the Dursleys.  He gets his letter and makes his way to Hogwarts, but hasn't got the background, the fortune or the insight that Hagrid and Ron gave him.  Would he have ended up in Slytherin?  (Remember, the sorting hat considered putting him there).  Would he have been an outcast and a loner like Snape?  Maybe he and Snape would have been much more alike in those circumstances.