Signs Snape seems to care about Harry was Re: The picture of Lily and Harry

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No: HPFGUIDX 175035

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "houyhnhnm102" <celizwh at ...> 
wrote:
>
> 
  There was no actual need for 
> Snape to include the early memories of himself and Lily 
> in order to carry out his promise to Dumbledore.  He 
> really only needed to show the memories of himself with 
> Dumbledore.  It was a gift, though Snape may not have 
> intended it as such.  It may rather have been his need to 
> justify himself to Harry, to make Harry understand him. 
> This need of Snape's to be seen and understood by Harry 
> strikes me as the other side of the coin from Harry's 
> wish to be friends with the Half Boold Prince.
> 
> I hadn't thought about the fact that when baby Harry 
> zipped out of one half of the picture, he had to have been 
> zipping into the other.  This must have worked on Snape.  
> Why else would he have included that memory along with 
> the others.  It was unnecessary to the message he had to 
> deliver. That Snape's attitiude towards Harry is continuing 
> to evolve in DH is shown by the success of his plan to 
> deliver the Sword, though once again, as in HBP, he is 
> able to teach Harry only because his identity remains unknown.
> 
> The enmity between these two who should have been friends 
> is one of the tragedies of the series.  I agree that 
> Snape's request to "Look at me" may not have been in 
> order to see Lily's eyes but to see Harry in order that 
> they might say "thou" to each other one time before it 
> was too late.

pair_0_docks:

I also interpreted this part as illustrating the fact that Snape 
actually "cares" about what Harry thinks of him.  I can't quote the 
exact place, but I think this is shown to us again back in OOTP when 
Harry lets it slip to Snape about his "spying," stating to him 
something like "no that's your job" and Snape seems to respond with a 
kind of pride of being acknowledged for that from Harry.

The other place that seems like caring to me is his response to DD 
when he finds out Harry must die. Even though he responses to DD's 
question: "So, have you grown fond of the boy?" by conjuring up his 
patronus and indicating his love of lily; I can't help but see this 
as a typical response of Snape's own philosophy "only fools wear 
their feelings out for everyone to see" and/or just another one of 
his snarky responses because he does not actually answer the 
questions just merely avoids it.


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